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Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - June 22, 2024 05:00 - 9 minutes - 8.71 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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So-called “pig butchering” scams take billions of dollars from people around the globe.
But do the cyber scams run from compounds in Cambodia really take an amount of money equivalent to half that country’s GDP?
We investigate how the scale of these criminal operations has been calculated.
Presenter: Tim Harford
Reporter: Tom Colls
Production coordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound mix: Andrew Garratt
Editor: Richard Vadon