I lost £60k in new ‘pig butchery’ crypto scam
"I’m only posting this to hopefully save somebody else, and also to get these thoughts off my chest."
She won his trust by revealing details of her daily life and sending pictures of her meals - a classic part of the routine, experts say.Soon she began "casually" mentioning how she followed Bitcoin trends and offered to teach him how to make money from prices going up and down. And when the victim and scammer both appear to suffer a sudden loss, she offers a top-up "loan" to cover fees and reactivate his account.By October, the Reddit poster had been persuaded to plough in a total of $60,000.
"These things usually involve romance and while the person that scammed me did try to be intimate with me, I never fell in love. But now more than a third of those duped are non-Chinese people in North America and Asia, showing how the target demographic is rapidly expanding.Salaried salesmen and women - who also get commission on each con - pose behind convincing fake social media profiles andOne man living in Sweden told how he almost fell victim to the scheme after matching with a gorgeous "Russian woman" on Tinder who said she lived in Italy.
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