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Federal authorities say they have dismantled one of the largest crypto fraud operations in history, seizing roughly $15 ...

Authorities are launching strike forces, freezing funds and sanctioning facilitators as pig-butchering victims face double ...

A “pig butchering” scam is a sophisticated, long-term investment fraud that combines social engineering with fake cryptocurrency platforms. […] ...

Alice Guō Huápíng, the onetime small-town mayor whose mid-2024 arrest heralded growing attention to what would become one of the world’s biggest crime stories, has been sentenced to life in prison by ...

Pig-butchering scams have evolved from consumer fraud into a national security concern, with crime rings targeting victims globally.

Police said the victim received a Facebook friend request on November 5, from a profile named Amrutha Chowdary, who claimed ...

Can you lose hundreds of thousands of dollars just by answering what looks like a wrong number text? You certainly can. It ...

U.S. federal agencies are establishing a Scam Center Strike Force to counter the industrial-scale efforts to swindle money ...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), along with the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia and ...

With the crypto asset boom has come a rise in crypto-related crime. One victim Business Insider spoke with lost $280,000 as a result of a pig butchering scam. He shared his insights on how to avoid ...