When the 51-year-old New Jersey father posted on Facebook about the troubles he faces while taking care of a son with celiac ...

“Pig butchering” schemes are on the rise, which refers to a type of online investment fraud. How this scheme works is a victim is lured into making increasingly large deposits, that are often in ...

Pig Butchering Scam: New methods of fraud keep emerging in the online world. One such new method is - "Pig Butchering Scam", which has troubled people. The Union Home Ministry said in its recent ...

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 ...

Interpol calls on the cybersecurity community, law enforcement, and the media to stop using the term "Pig Butchering" when referring to online relationship and investment scams, as it unnecessarily ...

Interpol is urging the public to swap pig butchering for "romance baiting," which "places the spotlight squarely where it belongs: on the actions of the perpetrators, rather than those of the victims, ...

When the creators of YouTube launched the website in 2005, they might have predicted the success of videos like Psy’s “Gangnam Style” and the parodies that ...

Crypto fraud revenue is estimated to have hit record levels last year amid a surge in so-called romance scams as cybercriminals leverage artificial intelligence and become more organized, blockchain ...

According to a report by Web3 security firm Cyvers, publicized through Nairametrics, pig butchering scams emerged as the most significant threat to crypto users in 2024, accounting for $3.6 billion in ...

The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million — which he sent to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by scammers who had duped ...