At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into travelling to Thailand for an ...

POCAHONTAS, Ark. (KAIT) - A tradition that goes back decades. The Annual Old Fashioned Hog Butchering, hosted by the Eddie Mae Herron Museum in Pocahontas on Saturday, Feb 15. The event is chance for ...

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Picture this; you're minding your business, browsing the latest cat memes, when suddenly, a mysterious message from a stranger lands in your inbox or DMs. It's not the classic junk email from a Middle ...

A Bitcoiner has reportedly lost his holdings to a pig butchering scam despite several warnings. “I’m beyond crushed on many ...

Joe Novak thought he had found love on social media. When the 51-year-old New Jersey father posted on Facebook about the troubles he faces while taking care of a son with celiac disease, a kind, ...

Romance scams are unfortunately common. Swindlers gain people's trust by pretending to date them online, and Americans have lost millions of dollars as a result. One woman in Philadelphia recently ...

During “romance week” and Valentine's Day, your heart can be stolen in the blink of an eye, and so can your money. The FBI has warned of “romance” scams, centering the bulletin around the celebration ...

Federal agents have quietly pulled off one of the largest financial seizures in American history, taking control of roughly 15 billion dollars in bitcoin tied to a sprawling "pig butchering" ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There's a new scam alert about "pig butchering." The term refers to a heavily scripted scheme to "beef up" their victims' egos before taking everything they have. It all starts when ...

Tricking people out of their money by maintaining a dialog with them over time to establish a friendship or flirtation. The pig butchering term comes from fattening pigs before slaughtering, which ...