Financial Crime & Fraud
Scams, fraud detection, cryptocurrency crime
7 episodes
#3843: Tracing the Grey Economy's Hidden Pipes
How journalists trace fraud from Tel Aviv boiler rooms to trafficking networks using public records and patience.
#3842: The Moving Scam That Holds Your Belongings Hostage
How a Tel Aviv call center runs interstate moving scams on Americans — and why it's still happening.
#3644: What Criminologists Actually Do (It's Not CSI)
Criminology isn't detective training. It's a social science that studies why crime happens—and whether the system works.
#2724: How Sanctions Actually Trap a Company
How the US Treasury freezes assets, isolates firms, and makes the world enforce its rules.
#2376: When States Mine Their Way Out of Sanctions
How Iran turns cheap electricity into cryptocurrency to bypass sanctions—and the tradeoffs of this digital alchemy.
#2375: Monero: The Digital Cash That Hides Everything
How Monero’s privacy tech makes every transaction untraceable—and why that’s becoming essential in a world of financial surveillance.
#1892: Trust vs. Math: The Hybrid Finance of Hawala and Crypto
How hawala networks and crypto merge to fund covert operations, and why intelligence agencies are struggling to track the money.