Feature interview: BTS in the scam industry

It's easy to say "you should have known better' when someone falls victim to a scam". Every day, smart people lose life savings to con artists who know exactly how to exploit trust. Scams are a global industry extracting more than 500 billion dollars a year from victims. The Economist investigates the crime, the criminals and the untold suffering they cause in a podcast called Scam Inc. South East Asia correspondent Sue Lin Wong tells the stories of victims, investigators, and even the scammers themselves, revealing their tricks so we can learn how to avoid them.