Attempted phone scams have become a daily headache for many Canadians. And David Common has been trying to get to the bottom of them.

The CBC host travelled all the way to India to track down the alleged perpetrators.

He speaks with Out in the Open host Piya Chattopadhyay about what he's discovered about how these schemes work, why people fall for them, and whether there's any hope of shutting them down.

This story appears in the Out in the Open episode "Beyond the Con".