The Secret Service says a fast-growing crypto scam can make fake profits look very real. Consumer Investigator Caresse ...

A Taiwan-based courier accused of helping carry out a sophisticated “pig butchering” investment scam that defrauded an Austin ...

A Bayside woman was sentenced to 120 days in prison on April 15 after paying a total of $2.5 million in restitution for her ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever formed a trusting relationship with someone online that forced you into a fraudulent investment scheme, you might have been a victim of "pig butchering". Pig butchering is at the heart ...

To feed the online fraud trade, Chinese crime syndicates have set up ‘factories’ using forced labour across Southeast Asia ...

On Wednesday, June 18, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced it had seized $225 million in cryptocurrency connected to pig butchering scams. The seizure involves funds stolen from 400 victims worldwide ...

Last year, the government recorded $4.57 billion in losses from investment fraud, but this figure is likely an underestimate. Crypto fraudsters are abandoning complicated Ponzi schemes in favor of ...

Victims of online scams are being deterred from coming forward for fear of being associated with language like "pig butchering," a phrase used to describe long-con romance fraud schemes, according to ...

Federal agents traced the Bitcoin to Myanmar and froze a fraction of the stolen funds ...