Vice Series: The evolving business of crime

副系列:犯罪商业的演变

The Indicator from Planet Money

2025-10-05

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Crime doesn’t resemble the old days. A deepfake of your voice can be used to convince a relative you need money. AI bots are capable of colluding in financial markets. There are seemingly countless new strategies of making data breaches more common. This week on The Indicator from Planet Money, we bring you five episodes digging into the evolving business of crime. For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.  Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • Rain pounds against the window of Detective Billy Hull's small town office.

  • He rubs his temples and slugs down his whiskey.

  • Cricket gobs, bet jobs.

  • It's rough out there.

  • They say every crime's got a story, and every story's got a sucker.

  • Detective Hull, I need your help.

  • I got in too deep with the numbers racket and now I marked the mobs on my tail.

  • So the mob's running numbers again, huh?

  • Well, hot tamale, could you give me a hand here?

  • I've been out of that tune for a while.

  • Crime doesn't resemble the old days anymore.

  • Today's crime smells like synthetic drugs, data breaches, deep fakes.

  • Alright kid, I can help you.

  • But first, I'm gonna need to listen to like five podcast episodes.

  • This coming week,

  • the indicator from Planet Money brings you a week of episodes on the evolving business of crime.