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Podcast: Public Key
Episode: Pig Butchering: Crypto’s Emerging Human Trafficking And Romance Scam Industry
Description: Pig Butchering: Crypto’s Emerging Human Trafficking And Romance Scam Industry
If you’ve ever gotten a friendly text message from a seemingly wrong number you might have been a target of the latest industrial scale scam targeting wealthy individuals around the world, known as Pig Butchering. In this week’s episode of Public Key, our host, Ian Andrews (CMO at Chainalysis) is joined by Alastair McCready, Southeast Asia Editor of Vice World News, who is based in Cambodia and has been investigating this human trafficking, romance, investment and crypto connected scam from its source.Â
Alastai...