What Is Pig Butchering? The Scam Everyone Needs to Know - Wong Sue Lin from The Economist explains https://youtube.com/shorts/HiMLcIwn4oM

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DOJ seizes record $225 million in crypto tied to global ‘pig butchering’ scams

Federal prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture action targeting more than $225 million in cryptocurrency traced to a sprawling web of fraudulent investment platforms. Victims were tricked into believing they were investing in legitimate crypto ventures, only to be scammed by criminal networks often operating overseas.

#scam #cryptocurrency #crypto #pigbutchering #DOJ

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/doj-crypto-scams.html

Pretty girls plus investment #fraud equals forfeiture recovery (eventually).

U.S. federal agencies have spent the past 18 months piecing together this complex #MoneyLaundering web. And now they’re ready to announce the seizure of a few hundred million from industrial scale #PigButchering #scams.

You can practically hear the bacon sizzling. In #SBBlogwatch, we grab the lettuce and tomato.

@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/06/pig-butchering-225m-seized-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc

DOJ seizes $225M from "pig butchering" crypto scammers! 🐷💰

These long-con fraudsters used fake romance + fake investments to bilk victims of billions. Pro tip: if someone slides into your DMs promising love AND guaranteed crypto returns, that's not a red flag - that's a whole red parade! 🚩

Good news: recovered funds go back to victims.

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/2312257/doj-files-to-seize-225-million-in-crypto-from-scammers

#CryptoScams #PigButchering #DOJ

The #DOJ seized $225 million in #cryptocurrency linked to #pigbutchering scams. The funds, traced to fraudulent investment platforms, will be subject to forfeiture proceedings to return money to victims. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/doj-crypto-scams.html?eickercrypto.com #crypto #blockchain

DOJ seizes $225.3M in crypto tied to global “pig butchering” scams—the largest cryptocurrency seizure in US Secret Service history. Over 400 victims targeted; funds will be used to compensate those defrauded. #DOJ #CryptoScam #PigButchering #Cryptocurrency #USDT #Fraud #Cybercrime #Blockchain #Justice #USSecretService

massive pig butchering scam busts in SE Asia:

- $225 million stolen
- 34,000 people investigated
- 9,200 crimes
- 1,800 arrests

crypto did this

https://therecord.media/asia-scam-center-takedowns-singapore-police

#fraud #scams #cambodia #pigbutchering #singapore #hongkong #crypto

While analyzing a scam server infrastructure, we discovered a folder containing a random name and profile generator - an open source tool designed to create identities on demand. The open source tool is hosted on Github and is pretty old with the latest commit around 7 years ago.

From a scammer’s perspective, tools like this are invaluable and are part of their toolkit. They’re used to craft believable personas for,

1. Pig-butchering and romance baiting
2. Crypto and investment scams
3. Social engineering campaigns at scale

Behind the scenes, the tool offers an API for automation and pulls profile images from unsplash[.]com

The next time you get a "Hi" or a "Hello" or something similar from a stranger, do recollect this post 😀

#pigbutchering #romancebaiting #investmentscams #cryptoscams

The US sanctions Philippines’ Funnull Technology for enabling $200M+ crypto scams targeting Americans. Huge blow to pig butchering fraud networks.

Details: https://hackread.com/us-sanctions-philippines-funnull-technology-crypto-scam/

#CyberSecurity #Philippines #Crypto #PigButchering #Scam

U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ #Scams – Krebs on #Security
#funnull #pigbutchering #philippines #privacy

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/u-s-sanctions-cloud-provider-funnull-as-top-source-of-pig-butchering-scams/

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. government discovered that a cloud provider named "Funnull" is actually an all-you-can-eat buffet for #scammers. 🍖 Apparently, their servers are full of "pig butchering" acts—because why settle for small-time cons when you can go whole hog? 🐖🐷💸
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/u-s-sanctions-cloud-provider-funnull-as-top-source-of-pig-butchering-scams/ #BreakingNews #CloudProvider #Funnull #PigButchering #CyberFraud #HackerNews #ngated

As folks in my network already know, we've ( @shreshta ) been actively detecting and tracking network infrastructure associated with industrial scale scams such as - pig-butchering/romance baiting, and crypto and investment fraud campaigns.

An interesting pattern in this data is the misuse of the Tesla brand in crypto and investment scam infrastructure.

From fake trading platforms to cloned website templates/kits and impersonation pages promising unrealistic returns, these scams are designed to deceive victims by capitalizing on the Tesla brand.

I am sharing our report which has some key findings, tactics used by threat actors, and indicators of compromise (IOCs).

Full report available here - https://shreshtait.com/blog/2025/05/crypto-investment-scams-exploiting-the-tesla-brand/

#pigbutchering #romancebaiting #scams #investment #Tesla #crypto

it's official: His Excellency Justin Sun, a man instrumental to the building of the #Tether cartel (a massive money laundering machine on a scale the world has never seen) with financial connections to every kind of pig butchering scam, terrorist financing group, and ransomware ransom, will be returning to the U.S. to dine with the president after years of being more or less a fugitive on the run from both the U.S. and Chinese authorities.

The United States of America has become a mafia state where those in power are unafraid of engaging and encouraging every time of crime (up to and including violence) against the governed in order to enrich themselves.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/justin-sun-trump-crypto-dinner-7efd5367

#JustinSun #Tron #TronNetwrok #TRX #uspol #corruption #crime #pigbutchering #infosec #fraud #HTX #Huobi #Poloniex #uspolitics #Sundog

L’amour en ligne transformé en piège : le fléau grandissant du pig butchering
https://www.zataz.com/lamour-en-ligne-transforme-en-piege-le-fleau-grandissant-du-pig-butchering/

#Infosec #Security #Cybersecurity #CeptBiro #AmourEnLigne #Piege #PigButchering #Zataz

Telegram bans $35B black markets used to sell stolen data, launder crypto https://arstechni.ca/3uWp #moneylaundering #pigbutchering #blackmarket #onlinescams #datatheft #SilkRoad #telegram #Policy

Big number! Android detects ~ 2B suspicious messages a month!

Google is expanding Scam Detection, AI powered tools that run locally on users’ devices and do not share data or message content with the company, to alert users to possible crypto scams, financial impersonation, gift card and prize scams. In real time.

Company claims “really positive impact” from using its machine learning systems to detect potential scam messages. https://www.wired.com/story/google-io-on-device-ai-scam-texts/ #Google #Android #Scams #AI #pigbutchering #Crypto #cryptoScams #ScamDetection #Fraud

i feel like there must be some linguistic reason these Chinese organized crime crypto money laundering companies always use the word "guarantee" in their names.

* Elliptic report: https://www.elliptic.co/blog/xinbi-guarantee
* Wired article: https://www.wired.com/story/xinbi-guarantee-crypto-scam-hub/

Also worth noting that Jacob Silverman and James Block (Dirty Bubble Media) were reporting on some of these Colorado based crypto scam companies a year and a half ago: https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/rocky-mountain-lie/

#Xinbi #XinbiGuarantee #crypto #crime #moneylaundering #corruption #colorado #NorthKorea #DPRK #pigbutchering #scams #fraud #Elliptic #triads #Zhongteng #ZhongtengAccounting #Telegram #China #LazarusGroup

I was ½ wondering how long it would take for the #scammerfarms to move on from #pigbutchering to #cryptobro come-ons in the #LinkedIn DMs... 😏
Quicker to get to the reporting stage (fraud/scam + spam) with LinkedIn though 😁

In our new blog, we share a personal experience of being approached for a fake remote job on Telegram and uncover the methods scammers use to deceive and exploit victims. We were eventually able to trick the scammers and withdraw some money before they finally caught onto us!

You can find the blog here: https://blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/telegram-tango-dancing-with-a-scammer/

#dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #scam #pigbutchering #crypto

the fact that it's called "The Karen National Army" is just the icing on the cake

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0129

#Myanmar #pigbutchering #cybercrime #crime #moneylaundering #scams #fraud #thailand #burma #Karen #KarenNationalArmy #northkorea #DPRK #KNA #Cybersecurity #infosec