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	Podcast:		The Signal
	Episode:		Inside the brain of an internet scammer
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:16:21
	Publish Date:		2019-02-10 11:00:00
	Description:		You've seen the emails: a little known Nigerian royal has passed away, left you a mountain of cash, and all you need do to claim it is transfer some money to a middleman first. But there's a lot more to scamming than that. Internet scammers have netted billions of dollars from vulnerable people, and Australians are among their biggest victims. So how do scams work, who designs them, and how do the scammers justify what they do? Today on The Signal we're off to Ghana, where the ABC's Four Corners has been tracking one of the biggest global crime syndicates, and its links to online scams. Featured: Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, ABC investigative reporter 'Kweiku', internet scammer Mike Kelly, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Peter Strand, scamming victim
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