Inside the Pig Butchering Crypto Scam: Scripts, Supply Chains, and Survival Tactics
The pig butchering crypto scam—known in Chinese as “sha zhu pan”—combines long-term social engineering with fraudulent trading platforms to extract ever-larger sums from victims. It’s not a lone-wolf hustle; it’s an industrialized system of recruitment, grooming, and cash-out, often tied to call-center compounds operating from weak enforcement zones in Southeast Asia. Understanding how this crime…