Researchers show how pig butchering-as-a-service providers equip scam networks with turnkey tools and infrastructure for ...

Chinese criminal syndicates have industrialized pig-butchering romance scams across Southeast Asia, turning fraud into a ...

Law enforcement seized $200,000 belonging to a Massachusetts victim who wired more than $500,000 into a suspected fake crypto ...

Federal agents have quietly pulled off one of the largest financial seizures in American history, taking control of roughly 15 billion dollars in bitcoin tied to a sprawling "pig butchering" ...

At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into travelling to Thailand for an ...

Service providers are delivering infrastructure, tools, and expertise and giving rise to pig-butchering-as-a-service models ...

At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into traveling to Thailand for an ...

AI is helping crypto scammers create content and personas to lure targets, experts warn, amid a glut of pig butchering cases.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A cruel scam known as pig butchering has struck yet another Bay Area resident. This time, an elderly widow in San Jose thought she found new love online. Instead, she was targeted ...

This kind of fraud is known as “pig-butchering” because the gangs say targets are led like hapless pigs to slaughter. It is ...