22 June 2024

Available for over a year

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