Even guessing at its scope requires economic detective work.
I've put down my economic and foreign policy books and picked up detective fiction.
Following armed PLM campaigns and an economic crisis in 1907, the Mexican government hired private detective Thomas Furlong to capture Flores Magón with the hope of extraditing him to México.
The Guardian understands that detectives at the City of London police's economic crime unit have interviewed at least five people in connection with Werritty's actions.
A strange combination of crime novel and economic manifesto, the book became, as usual, a successful film, with Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes as the detectives on the case.
Detective chief superintendent Dave Clark, head of City of London police's economic crime directorate, said it was an "unfortunate reality" that fraudsters were rife on online booking sites.
Oxfam and the British Heart Foundation, which is "seriously concerned" by the thefts, will meet Nick Hurd, the Civil Society minister, and Detective Chief Superintendent Steve Head, the head of the City of London's economic crime unit, to discuss the problem at the Cabinet Office next week.
