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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @standardcrypto 29 Aug \ parent \ on: Scammers ditch ‘elaborate’ crypto Ponzis for pig butchering: Chainalysis bitcoin
It's a targetted sweetheart scam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_scam
These are a lot of work, and maybe only economical under slave labor conditions (the article suggests).
A repulsive economy.
Yeah they have taken off because of human trafficking in Southeast Asia sadly... Without governments to step in and help these people it is a complete disaster for those trafficked. Myanmar is in such disarray that criminal organizations can either buy off the military or buy of the regional militias in charge to run their opperation
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