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‘Pig butchering’ scammers target BBC reporter

‘Pig butchering’ scammers target BBC reporter

A BBC reporter has been given an in-depth insight into how pig butchering scams work after being targeted himself. Scammers refer to their victims as pigs, whom they fatten up to be “butchered” – or conned, out of as much money as possible. Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy was befriended on Instagram by fraudsters pretending to be an attractive 36-year-old woman …

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