… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on ...

On Wednesday, June 18, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced it had seized $225 million in cryptocurrency connected to pig butchering scams. The seizure involves funds stolen from 400 victims worldwide ...

There was the realtor whose wife liquidated her 401(k). The church secretary who invested her life’s savings. The husband who went into credit card debt, all to feed the beast. The cases that Steve ...

Pig butchering is a translation of the Chinese phrase "Shā Zhū Pán" and is one of the most devastating form of scam, targeting victims worldwide through sophisticated social engineering techniques, ...