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China is sentencing pig butchering scammers to death (protos.com)

submitted 12 hours ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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China has sentenced nearly 20 people, including members of prominent mafia families, to death over pig butchering scams in recent months. The post China is sentencing pig butchering scammers to death appeared first on Protos.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

For people who are also annoyed by this articles lack of explanation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

Fucking thank you. I had to click a link in the OP article to another article which mentioned crypto in order figure out that they weren't actually talking about illegal slaughterhouses.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

If anyone is into it, last week tonight has an episode covering the topic.