Podcast Review: Scam Inc

I recently finished listening to Scam Inc, a podcast series by the Economist on the "booming" industry of online scams. Just to show how good this series is, I subscribed immediately after the free episodes and finished the entire series in a two-day weekend. This is despite me previously unsubscribing to the Economist due to a lack of time for reading (but perhaps podcast is a better option for me anyways).

Online scams isn't exactly new to me. I've watched many content creators in this space, such as Kitboga and Atomic Shrimp. However, this podcast series manages to deliver something new: the downfall of an entire bank in Kansas, the industrialization of online scamming, the genius escape plan of innocent people who are scammed to be scammers, and the linkage between pig butchering scams and Chinese crime syndicates, just to name a few off the top of my head. It was refreshing and insightful to learn about both the surface and the undercurrent of online scamming.

Despite all this knowledge, I would still try to stay alert of anything suspicious - it's never a bad idea to be too careful.