Pig Butchering

A divorced investor’s tragic loss reveals how emotional manipulation, combined with AI technology, has weaponized crypto scams into a billion-dollar crime.

An investor willingly sent his hard-earned Bitcoin retirement fund to a scammer, losing his entire stash after falling for a pig butchering scam despite repeated warnings.

Pig-butchering scams are expanding into a transnational crime model, blending trafficking and crypto laundering on a massive scale.

Hong Kong’s rich investors are planning to enter crypto this year, South Korea to ban stablecoin yields, and more.

The victim of a $20 million crypto scam who sued Citibank last week for allegedly ignoring “red flags” has filed a similar complaint against two more banks.

The victim of a $20 million crypto pig butchering scam has sued Citibank, alleging it ignored “red flags” and should have investigated suspicious activity.

Top Chinese think tank urges Beijing to tackle US stablecoin threat, crypto scams rattle Thailand’s tourism industry, and more.

Crime syndicates are minting stablecoins and building exchanges to launder billions of dollars, warns a UN report.

Crypto’s biggest names fend off rumors of grooming degen gamblers on Chinese schools; nine scammers sentenced for tricking 67,000 Indian men into believing they were rich Indian women, and more.