Scammers, spies and triads: inside cyber-crime’s $15tn global empire | FT Film

From industrial-scale fraud factories to influence operations and underground banking, Chinese organised crime groups are revolutionising law enforcement's understanding of transnational crime. The FT reports on the globalisation of scamming syndicates and the proliferation of crime-as-a-service tools.

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01:07 Intro
01:25 SMS-blasters
02:38 IMSI-catchers
03:54 Oslo connection
05:54 Spy hunter
07:31 SIM farms in NYC
08:21 The Smishing Triad
11:18 Nigerian crypto scammer
14:17 Chinese scammers in Africa
15:38 Macau, the genesis
16:16 Philippine POGOs
18:18 Criminal convergence in Asia
20:14 Palau connection
22:42 Isle of Man
26:20 China threat
27:13 Conclusion

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