The scammers, frequently based in Southeast Asia, slowly gain the trust of their targets and then convince them to give money to buy cryptocurrency.

One of the most lucrative of these, being run by criminal gangs across South East Asia, is called the “pig butchering romance ... China is encouraging it's retirees to spend their savings ...

How human trafficking victims are forced to run ‘pig butchering ... and who's behind them? ERIN WEST: What we know is that these scams are coming primarily from Southeast Asia.

The landscapes here offer a variety of views that are hard to find elsewhere. During location scouting, we discovered some incredible places and even more incredible people, who, in turn, inspired and ...

It's almost unthinkable—someone wooing you into a love affair while secretly referring to you as the pig they are fattening for slaughter ... started in Southeast Asia as "sha zhu pan ...

A pig's head without its ears was also found there on Thursday, intended for delivery to a reporter. "This is a dangerous and deliberate act of intimidation," Beh Lih Yi, head of the Asia program ...

ASIC has been granted court permission to shut down almost 100 websites running investment scams, with the Federal Court describing how victims were being “fattened like pigs to slaughter ... a Sha ...