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nomilk 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams

Was curious of the etymology of name of the scam:

> The term comes from fraudsters referring to their victims as 'pigs' – those they gradually 'fatten up' by luring them into a fake romance or friendship before 'butchering' them by convincing them to invest, often in fake cryptocurrency schemes.

Source: https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2024/INTERP...

bondarchuk 8 months ago [–]

Oh, I had never gotten the "fatten up" part of the analogy before.

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