The billion-dollar scam

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Investigative reporter Simona Weinglass leads a BBC Eye investigation into a criminal network, believed to have scammed more than a billion dollars from victims across the globe. The organisation sponsored a top-tier football club to promote its online trading platform, promising investors the chance of astonishing returns. We hear from victims, undercover agents and police, in a bid to track down who is in charge.

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0:00.0	At normal transactions.
0:03.0	It's a kind of cyber attack on a bank.
0:05.0	Ten of millions of dollars.
0:07.0	Something I don't think anybody has seen before.
0:09.0	The cyber criminal group.
0:11.0	From the BBC World Service.
0:12.0	The Lazarus Ice is back for season two.
0:14.0	It was really like in the movies.
0:16.0	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:24.0	We have no idea where we're going.
0:26.0	We were told to follow the car in front of us.
0:28.0	We're in to Belizee, Georgia.
0:30.0	Trailing an undercover cop car.
0:33.0	Last time they did a raid like this.
0:35.0	The bosses were tipped off and that's why everything depends on secrecy.
0:39.0	The police are planning a secret raid.
0:42.0	At an office in a skyscraper.
0:45.0	Somewhere in the financial district.
0:47.0	We think it's home to a major scam call center.
0:51.0	We've driven into this parking garage
0:53.0	and the German and Georgian police are in disguise.
0:57.0	An officer walks up to the intercom and says he's here to deliver some post.
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