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The BBC’s Scam Safe season kicks off with a one-off drama looking at online scamming from an unusual perspective. Set mostly in a scam call centre in Delhi, the focus of Satinder Kaur Chohan’s play is ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.