The Economist. Today on The Weeknd Intelligence,
we're bringing you the first half of a new eight-part podcast series, Scam,
Inc. I'm Rosie Bloor, co-host of The Intelligence,
and I was completely gripped from the moment my colleague,
Sulin Wong, first told me about this podcast.
This is the biggest story you've never heard of.
Sulin follows a trail around the world,
taking us deep into the heart of the ingenious and sophisticated networks working so hard to rip us off.
She follows the money even as it appears to scatter like feathers,
out of our bank accounts, laundered and back, full circle onto the streets of our cities.
And most of all, she digs into the heart of a new,
developing, terrifying trade in human emotions.
You can find the whole series by searching Scam Inc. wherever you get your podcasts.
In the summer of 2023, there was a drought in Kansas.
But Jim Tucker's family had weathered worse.
Jim's great-grandfather had first settled here as a homesteader,
not long before the Dust Bowl era in the 1930s.
A tall, affable man, Jim still farms the family plot today.
It's home, and he loves it.
You know, we're in the southwest corner of Kansas,