Do pig butchering cyber scams make as much as half Cambodias GDP?

Published: June 22, 2024, 5 a.m.

So-called \u201cpig butchering\u201d scams take billions of dollars from people around the globe.\n \nBut do the cyber scams run from compounds in Cambodia really take an amount of money equivalent to half that country\u2019s GDP?\n \nWe investigate how the scale of these criminal operations has been calculated.

Presenter: Tim Harford\nReporter: Tom Colls\nProduction coordinator: Brenda Brown\nSound mix: Andrew Garratt\nEditor: Richard Vadon