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On September 8, 2023, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) released an alert regarding a notorious virtual currency scam called “pig butchering,” because, unfortunately, it resembles the “fattening a hog before slaughter.” These scams are primarily perpetrated by criminal organizations in Southeast Asia where these scams are also called “Sha Zhu Pan.” The unwitting victims are the…
WASHINGTON—Today, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an alert to highlight a prominent virtual currency investment scam known as “pig butchering.” Multiple U.S. law enforcement sources estimate victims in the United States have lost billions of dollars to these scams and other virtual currency investment frauds. “This scam has impacted far too many Americans,…
A recent UN report reveals hundreds of thousands of vulnerable migrants have been forced to participate in online scams. It confirms allegations made in a previous FBI report. The new report by the United Nations Human Rights Office has exposed the full scale of horrific human rights abuses taking place inside Southeast Asia’s shadowy network of…
Several foreign embassies – all of them Asian – warned their citizens of the risks associated with traveling to this country and the United States dropped Cambodia to the lowest ranking on its annual Trafficking in Persons Report for failing to “meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.” Many of those scam operations were established by Chinese criminals who decided not to…
Hontiveros, citing the testimony of “Rita” one of the human trafficking victims who was lured to accept a job in Thailand but ended up forced to work and dupe people to cryptocurrency investment scams, about 31 Filipinos were still left behind in Myanmar. “They have a quota and if they couldn’t deliver, especially among the…
Franco Luna – Philstar.com November 21, 2022 | 6:34pm MANILA, Philippines (Updated 7:38 p.m.) — Filipinos are being recruited through fake job ads and forced into cryptocurrency investment scams, Sen. Risa Hontiveros said Monday, adding the Chinese syndicate behind it wants to form an “all-Filipino team of scammers” because of their proficiency in English. In her…
Susan (not her real name) spends her days worrying about her son who has been detained by the authorities in Cambodia. According to the Malaysian embassy there, he is being held because he travelled to the country without the necessary documents. Speaking to MalaysiaNow, however, Susan said the 24-year-old was in fact trafficked to Cambodia…
Editor’s note: PLEASE TELL YOUR PARENTS OR ELDERLY PERSONS YOU KNOW. Their savings might be at risk. Better to be safe and get educated about these types of scams. “Pig-butchering” online scams have grown from continued poverty and corruption. And they prey on our vulnerabilities. This specific type of labor trafficking essentially creates a Ponzi…
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