The Al & Ivy (AI) Podcast, Episode 37: The Art of the Pig Butchering Scam

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In this week’s podcast, Al & Ivy dissect the dark psychology behind “pig butchering” scams—where love, trust, and crypto collide in global deception.

The content was generated thru NotebookLM from this content source: “The Pig Butchering Crypto Scam – a Detailed Analysis” authored by Matt Hamilton and published on the Hamilton & Associates Lawyers website.

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The provided text describes “pig butchering”, a complex type of “long con” confidence game that originated in China and has since spread globally. This scam, named for its analogy to fattening a pig before slaughter, involves gaining a victim’s trust over time, often through romance or investment promises, before luring them into increasingly large financial commitments. The text details the stages of these scams, from trust creation to the final “vanishing” of the scammers, and lists numerous types of pig butchering scams, with romance-based scams yielding the highest average payouts. It also highlights warning signs for potential victims and discusses the difficulty of prosecuting these international cybercriminals and recovering stolen cryptocurrency, despite the numerous civil and criminal laws they violate.

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