The Economist. Last week on The Weeknd Intelligence,
we brought you the first half of our new eight-part podcast series,
Scam, Inc. Now we have the second installment.
I'm Rosie Bloor, co-host of The Intelligence,
and if you haven't already listened to the previous episodes,
I'm here to urge you to do so.
My colleague Sulin Wong is leading us on a wild ride from small-town Kansas to the jungles of Myanmar and the Philippines with a short foray into the English Premier League before we end up back in Kansas again.
The scope and scale of the industry Sulin has revealed is extraordinary.
So too are the depths to which humanity can sink in the interest of enrichment.
And yes, it's about us too.
Why I'm vulnerable and why you're vulnerable.
You won't just want to listen to Scam Inc. You need to listen.
Previously on Scam Inc. This permanent series of crackdowns from Xi Jinping's administration has partly led to this expansion of Chinese organized crime internationally.
And we're seeing this form of crime being adopted around the world.
I spent too much.
In the province of my grandmother, for safety purposes,
because they have my copy of my passport, the Chinese indicate they can found me there.
What about the other 11 Filipinos?
Same.
In the Philippines, every Monday morning across the country,