The pig butchering term comes from fattening pigs before slaughtering, which takes several months. The pig butcher contacts unsuspecting people via text, email, social media or dating sites and ...

The FBI has warned about a potentially devastating cryptocurrency scam called "pig butchering". The con, which CBS News said could "wipe out someone's life savings", has been growing in scale over ...

“The concept of pig butchering is the idea of fattening up the victim, getting them to invest more, more and more of that money, over a long period ... re leveraging that human desire to connect ...