From around 2020, when the first pig slaughter scandal broke began to emergeMore than 200,000 people have been trafficked and held in complexes – mostly in Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos – where they are forced to play the role of an online scammer. If they refuse, the criminals who own the premises scam people, usually associated with Chinese organized crime. beat or torture themPeople from more than 60 countries around the world have been trafficked – often after seeing online advertisements promising them jobs that seem too good to be true.
Scammers are forced to send thousands of online messages to potential victims around the world on a daily basis. They are tasked with forming relationships, often by luring friendship or romance, and ultimately persuading their victims to send them money as part of lucrative “investment opportunities”. Individually, victims have hundreds of thousands of dollars lostWhile pig butchering criminal enterprises have collectively defrauded people around $75 billion In recent years.
“These scams may start on dating apps, text messages, email, social media or messaging apps, then eventually move to scammer-controlled accounts on websites masquerading as crypto apps or investment platforms,” Meta wrote in its report. Can be moved.” “In addition to disrupting scam centers, teams across Meta are constantly introducing new product features to help protect people from widely known scam tactics on our apps.”
Pig slaughter scams lead to financial theft, but they begin either from one-to-one cold communication between scammers and potential victims or from contacts arising from social media groups or other communal forums. For example, Gary Warner, director of intelligence at cybersecurity firm Darktower, says he tracks thousands of Facebook groups dedicated to luring people into cryptocurrency investment scams, as well as groups that claim to be community dating resources. Let's find out where the scammers are hiding.
Online moderation of scammers is a difficult and long-standing issue for Big Tech. As is the case with many types of inauthentic content, some pig cutting activities may go beyond the tech company's standards – even when they are performing large numbers of account removals – as the content may not meet the criteria for removal. Is not clear enough.
“What's on the platform is clearly a prelude to pig slaughter, but Meta says it 'doesn't violate community standards,'” Warner says.