{"id":29752,"date":"2023-03-08T01:20:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T01:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/08\/pig-butchering-former-romance-scammer-reveals-tactics\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T01:20:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T01:20:50","slug":"pig-butchering-former-romance-scammer-reveals-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=29752","title":{"rendered":"Pig butchering: Former romance scammer reveals tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In recent years, people around the world have lost hundreds of millions of dollars to online romance scams. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">One of the most lucrative of these, being run by criminal gangs across South East Asia, is called the \u201cpig butchering romance scam\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The scammers refer to their victims as pigs, whom they fatten up to be &#8220;butchered&#8221; &#8211; or conned, out of as much money as possible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A BBC World Service investigation has spoken to former insiders, who reveal the brutal conditions facing many of those working as scammers and the sophisticated techniques that are used. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/m001jw0s\/the-pig-butchering-romance-scam\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">the full documentary on the BBC iPlayer, <\/a>and read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-62792875\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">our previous coverage on the issue here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-64884036?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In recent years, people around the world have lost hundreds of millions of dollars to online romance scams. One of the most lucrative of these, being run by criminal &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}