找到原报道了A Text Scam Called ‘Pig Butchering’ Cost Her $1.6 M
Scammers swindle professionals with friendship to generate fake cryptocurrency investments
The text message on Jane Yan’s mobile phone came from a number she didn’t recognize. “Are we going to the salon tonight?” It looked like the kind of mistake that can happen any day.
In fact, it was part of a continuing scam that cost U.S. victims more than $429 million in losses last year, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s clearinghouse for consumer complaints about online crime.
In Santa Clara County, Calif., complaints about these scams have skyrocketed over the past two years as people have become more accustomed to meeting and doing business virtually, said Jeff Rosen, the county’s district attorney.
The scam preys on basic decency—the impulse to help someone who sends a message by mistake—and loneliness, Mr. Rosen said. “There are a lot of lonely people out there, and while the vast, vast majority of people are not going to respond to that kind of text, a few will,” he said.
The average losses reported from these scams are $300,000, Mr. Rosen said.
The scammers are often based in Asia, where the con is known as “pig butchering”—a reference to the practice of first “fattening” the victim’s cryptocurrency account with fake gains before the scam ends, according to advocacy groups and law-enforcement officials.
The Global Anti-Scam Organization, a nonprofit that works to help victims and raise public awareness on scams, has counted more than 2,000 victims so far, and they tend to be successful professionals, said Brian Bruce, chief of operations with the group. “They’ve got Ph.D.s; they’re successful business owners; they’re senior managers,” he said. “One scammer said to me, ‘We don’t talk to Uber drivers or farmers.’”
Jane Yan’s text about the salon came on Jan. 20. Normally she would have ignored it, she said, but she didn’t. “You must have the wrong person,” she responded.
The person sending the text said he was “Eric,” a Chinese businessman who was stuck in Seattle because of Covid. He was very polite and apologized for the wrong number. Then he started asking her questions. “Are you working here? Are you going to school here?” he asked. They began to chat, eventually by voice, but not about serious or financial topics. Eric liked to discuss family, food and popular culture, Ms. Yan remembered. He offered advice on life.
我刚刚收到的哈。先给我发短信说你是不是小提琴老师某某。我没理。人又发一短信确认我是小提琴老师。基于我家老大在找笛子老师，我就同情TA说，你发错号码了。用的是英文发的。
哇塞，人家立刻温情脉脉的说，真抱歉!你也懂中文吗？你真好，真善良。
对不起耶，小k不善良也不好，本质就是个女流氓女强盗，而且根本不吃马屁这一套。俺立刻回信，半英文半中文：
我不好，我也知道你想骗钱。我黑了你了。人在做天在看。不是不报，时候未到。
这世界，真是啥骗子都有。滚蛋去吧。
补几个英文报道链接，有功夫的可以看看：
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2022/09/09/pig-butchering-crypto-super-scam/?sh=668d5192ec8e
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-text-scam-called-pig-butchering-cost-her-more-than-1-6-million-11666258201
维基：
杀猪盘指一类电信诈骗手段：诈骗实施者具体通过电讯及网络信息技术来捏造虚拟形象获得被害方信任，进而建立亲密关系，最终达到骗取公私财物的目的[1]。因该手段组织严密、产业链完整、施骗周期长、受害人数多、涉案金额高等原因，受到社会关注[2][3]。
杀猪盘在2017年就已经出现[4]，并于2019年被中国的国家语言资源监测与研究中心评为“2019年度中国媒体十大新词语”[5]，据不完全统计，截止2019年4月27日，在中国大陆，杀猪盘受害人数为876人，受骗金额超2亿元人民币[4]。
突然发现需要感谢AP刚刚在笑版教了我这个词！
Scammers swindle professionals with friendship to generate fake cryptocurrency investments
The text message on Jane Yan’s mobile phone came from a number she didn’t recognize. “Are we going to the salon tonight?” It looked like the kind of mistake that can happen any day.
In fact, it was part of a continuing scam that cost U.S. victims more than $429 million in losses last year, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s clearinghouse for consumer complaints about online crime.
Three months after beginning a conversation with the person who texted her, Ms. Yan had lost more than $1.6 million, the victim of a wave of messages that have flooded onto mobile devices this year via text message and social media, according to law-enforcement officials.
In Santa Clara County, Calif., complaints about these scams have skyrocketed over the past two years as people have become more accustomed to meeting and doing business virtually, said Jeff Rosen, the county’s district attorney.
The scam preys on basic decency—the impulse to help someone who sends a message by mistake—and loneliness, Mr. Rosen said. “There are a lot of lonely people out there, and while the vast, vast majority of people are not going to respond to that kind of text, a few will,” he said.
The average losses reported from these scams are $300,000, Mr. Rosen said.
The scammers are often based in Asia, where the con is known as “pig butchering”—a reference to the practice of first “fattening” the victim’s cryptocurrency account with fake gains before the scam ends, according to advocacy groups and law-enforcement officials.
The Global Anti-Scam Organization, a nonprofit that works to help victims and raise public awareness on scams, has counted more than 2,000 victims so far, and they tend to be successful professionals, said Brian Bruce, chief of operations with the group. “They’ve got Ph.D.s; they’re successful business owners; they’re senior managers,” he said. “One scammer said to me, ‘We don’t talk to Uber drivers or farmers.’”
Jane Yan’s text about the salon came on Jan. 20. Normally she would have ignored it, she said, but she didn’t. “You must have the wrong person,” she responded.
The person sending the text said he was “Eric,” a Chinese businessman who was stuck in Seattle because of Covid. He was very polite and apologized for the wrong number. Then he started asking her questions. “Are you working here? Are you going to school here?” he asked. They began to chat, eventually by voice, but not about serious or financial topics. Eric liked to discuss family, food and popular culture, Ms. Yan remembered. He offered advice on life.
想骗个色(shǎi)?
然后报告FBI
但是还是挺佩服他们的，居然知道我是老师等一些信息
https://blog.wenxuecity.com/myblog/79555/202211/22228.html
东南亚杀猪盘，赫赫有名。