Robin Wigglesworth and Gillian Tett talk to Dan Davies, financial historian and author of ‘Lying for Money’, to hear about some of the wildest and most shocking frauds in history.тБа
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From ‘the great salad oil swindle,’ which almost brought down American Express to a fake gold mine in Borneo that ended with a mysterious fall from a helicopter. Together they explore how trust drives modern economies – and how fraudsters continuously exploit it.тБа
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