As long as the money keeps coming in, pig butchering will keep spreading around the world. “Fraud is not being seen as a serious crime—not like drugs, not like terrorism,” Humanity Research ...

is one of hundreds — if not thousands — of Californians victimized by a long con referred to as “pig butchering,” in which networks of scammers spend weeks and months posing as prospective ...

Modern-day pig butchering describes how online scammers play the long game: luring and grooming victims with seemingly innocent “wrong number” text messages. If someone responds, the scammer ...

The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning of a massive cybercrime operation powering ...

Social Security Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony Monaco said long-con scams are “particularly heinous,” adding, “Other agencies refer to these scams as ‘pig butchering ...

A pig butchering scam is a type of long-term scam, which usually but not always combines the various forms of romance scams and investment frauds, in which the victim is gradually lured into ...

The ‘confidence’ game is played over a long stretch of time, leading to larger and larger ‘investments’ in crypto by the victim. Eventually, it leads to the scammers vanishing with all ...