Pig Butchering Scams: Crypto’s $5.5B Crisis in 2024
Cryptocurrency investors have become a major target of a new kind of fraud known as "Pig Butchering" scams. These scams, which have been used to defraud a total of over $5.5 billion and have currently been hitting the crypto space really hard, are one of the biggest threats to crypto today. They are not just your ordinary scams, though. Pig Butchering scams are incredibly well-crafted and executed. The scheme gets its name from the way the scammers fatten up their victims (as in feeding a pig) before making off with the victims' life savings. The nature of this scheme means it is devastating to any target that it hits. https://twitter.com/CyversAlerts/status/1892549645194129788?t=R3AWt4v81PQbHej3b2UjCw&s=19 The Rise of AI-Powered Fraud Pig Butchering scams are highly sophisticated, with the authors of the scams taking advantage of both human psychology and advanced technology. They usually go after […]