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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /529/ Don't Pick Up: The Scam Economy ft. Mark Bo
Description: On Southeast Asia's scam compounds.
Mark Bo, organised-crime researcher and co-author of Scam, talks to Alex and Lee about his book, his experiences and why this fusion of gangsterism and speculation has taken root in the contemporary economy.
What is the scale of the scam industry?
How do scams like pig butchering, fish butchering, or law-enforcement impersonation work?
How does organised crime structure itself on corporate lines? How does this fit with modern slavery?
Do illicit zones signal the coming of a kind of "compound capitalism"? Is scamming a...