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‘Pig butchering’ scams hit online victims for billions
( NewsNation) — It’s a graphic, gruesome term for what has become a worldwide scam responsible for stealing an estimated $75 billion from people worldwide: Pig butchering, so named for the practice of fattening up pigs before they’re slaughtered.
A victim of a crypto ‘pig butchering’ scam just got his $140,000 back
NPR investigated a crypto scam company known as SpireBit, which stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from Russian-speaking seniors. Now, some of the victims are getting their money back after a lawsuit by Massachusetts authorities.
Hackers using fake trading apps to lure victims in 'pig butchering' scam
Using a series of fraudulent trading apps, which were available for download on both the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store, hackers have duped thousands of people
‘Pig butchering’ schemes found hiding as trading apps on Google Play, App Store
Cybersecurity researchers have reported finding multiple mobile applications used in so-called ‘pig butchering’ schemes, lurking on the official Google and Apple repositories. ‘Pig butchering’ is a type of financial fraud in which the victims - called ‘pigs’ - are first “stuffed”,
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Beware of 'Pig Butchering' scams: Fake trading apps are stealing money from smartphone users: Report
Hackers are exploiting fake trading apps on smartphones to execute scams, tricking users into losing money through fraudulent ...
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The Pig Butchering Invasion Has Begun
Pig butchering” scam operations that once originated in Southeast Asia are now proliferating around the world, likely raking ...
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Pig butchering: one of the world's fastest growing scams
The FBI estimates that pig butchering scams stole nearly $4bn in total from tens of thousands of American victims last year, ...
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iOS And Android Security Scare—2 Very Dangerous Apps Found In Official Stores
Security researchers have warned that “pig butchering” trading platform fraudsters have been leveraging people’s trust in ...
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Security News This Week: The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phone
Plus: Harvard students pack Meta’s smart glasses with privacy-invading face-recognition tech, Microsoft and the DOJ seize ...
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Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams
Gizmodo submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FTC for consumer complaints about Truth Social filed ...
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Google Play Store and Apple App Store hit by fraudulent trading apps in ‘pig butchering’ scheme
Pig butchering is a type of investment fraud where victims are shown fabricated profits and asked to invest more and more ...
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'Pig butchering' fraud: The link between modern slavery, torture and online crime
Netflix documentary "The Tinder Swindler" tells the story of a fraudster who convinces women he met on a dating app to "loan" ...
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Pig Butchering Crypto Scams Rising
Since then, pig butchering crypto scams continue to rise and remain profitable for the perpetrators. Chainalsys 2024 Crypto ...
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