What Next TBD: Where Scams Are Born

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🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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An app for open money laundering, a corridor of massive casinos in the middle of nowhere, and the global scamdemic. Guest: Cezary Podkul, reporter for Propublica If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me. When
0:22.9	you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:33.7	Earlier this fall, Cesari Podcool noticed an ad on telegram. It was posted by someone calling
0:42.4	himself Mr. Big in a Chinese-language telegram channel where people go to strike money laundering
0:47.9	deals. Cesari is a reporter for ProPublica based in Hong Kong. And lately, he's been covering cyber fraud.
0:56.4	He says Mr. Big seemed like he needed help fast.
1:02.3	And this appeared like quite a desperate plea
1:05.5	to help launder a large amount of money
1:07.9	in a form of gold, precious stones,
1:10.6	and basically just get
1:11.3	all that stuff across the border into China because apparently, as he put it in his ad,
1:17.2	a crackdown was making it difficult for him to do that. So this was an example of the kinds of
1:22.2	ads you see in these forms, and it was quite alarming because we know that there's a lot of cyber
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