A scam called “pig butchering” gaining steam as a potent threat to Canadians almost lured this reporter — and it all started ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever formed a trusting relationship with someone online that forced you into a fraudulent investment scheme, you might have been a victim of "pig butchering". Pig butchering is at the heart ...

The pig butchering operations, run by organized crime syndicates, are fueled by human trafficking, West said. The scammers behind personas like “Jenny” are often victims themselves, tricked into ...

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 ...

The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million — which he sent to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by scammers who had duped ...

It took two months of near daily conversations, of first cultivating trust and then love, before he walked into her trap. Two months of phone calls, text messages and video chats. Two months of ...

Hanes, 53, also swindled funds from a local church and investment club — and a daughter's college savings account — to transfer money, purportedly to buy cryptocurrency as the scammers insisted they ...