Scharfman, Jason (2024) — The Cryptocurrency and Digital Asset Fraud Casebook, Volume II
Type: Book Chapter
Country: United States
Tags: money mules, AI misuse
This chapter provides a neutral overview of crypto romance scams and pig butchering, placing them within a broader history of online fraud. The opening sections trace the historical thread of romance- and advance-fee sch...
Crypto-Cognitive Exploitation: Integrating Cognitive, Social, and Technological perspectives on cryptocurrency fraud
Perdana, Arif; Jhee Jiow, Hee (2024) — Telematics and Informatics
Type: Journal Article
Country: Global
Tags: cryptocurrency fraud, cognitive vulnerability, social engineering, romance scams, pig butchering, DeFi scams, regulatory strategies, text analytics
Crypto-Cognitive Exploitation offers a catalog-style synthesis of how fraud in cryptocurrency environments emerges from the interplay of cognitive processes, social dynamics, and technological infrastructures. The volume...
Deconstructing a form of hybrid investment fraud: Examining ‘pig butchering’ in the United States
Maras, Marie-Helen; Ives, Emily R. (2024) — Journal of Economic Criminology
Type: Journal Article
Country: United States
This piece examines Deconstructing a form of hybrid investment fraud: Examining ‘pig butchering’ in the United States within the broader context of online fraud and mediated communication. It outlines common patterns doc...
How Do Crypto Flows Finance Slavery? The Economics of Pig Butchering
Griffin, John M.; Mei, Kevin (2024) — SSRN Electronic Journal
Type: Journal Article
Country: United States
This piece examines How Do Crypto Flows Finance Slavery? The Economics of Pig Butchering within the broader context of online fraud and mediated communication. It outlines common patterns documented in the literature, de...
Pig Butchering in Cybersecurity: A Modern Social Engineering Threat
L. Burton, Dr. Sharon; D. (Vickerson) Moore, Dr. Pamela (2024) — SocioEconomic Challenges
Type: Journal Article
Country: United States
Tags: victim experience, psychology, law enforcement, platform policy, AI misuse, online dating platforms, social engineering, risk factors, prevention, measurement, cross-cultural
Pig butchering represents an expanding cybersecurity threat that relies on social engineering to establish trust and execute financial fraud. The relevance of this issue lies in the growing frequency and sophistication o...
Scam Techniques in Pig Butchering Scams: Case Study
Dove, Martina (2024) — SSRN Electronic Journal
Type: Journal Article
Country: United States
Tags: pig butchering, romance scam, online fraud, persuasion techniques, grooming, emotional abuse, crypto investment scam, case study
This catalog-style synopsis presents a case-study–oriented examination of scam techniques observed in pig butchering fraud, as described in an article published within an SSRN electronic journal. The study frames pig but...
The Scenes Behind the Global ‘Pig Butchering’ Scheme in Myanmar
Li, Tongyang (2024) — Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies
Type: Journal Article
Country: China
Tags: victim experience, psychology, AI misuse, cross-cultural
This piece examines The Scenes Behind the Global ‘Pig Butchering’ Scheme in Myanmar within the broader context of online fraud and mediated communication. It outlines common patterns documented in the literature, describ...
Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers escaping from pig-butchering scam syndicate
Wang, Fangzhou (2024) — Trends in Organized Crime
Type: Journal Article
Country: United States
Tags: victim experience, offender tactics, platform policy, AI misuse, social engineering, prevention
This study explores the intersection of human trafficking and online romance fraud within the context of the pig-butchering scam (Sha Zhu Pan, 杀猪盘). While the scam is widely recognized for combining romance and invest...
Romance baiting, cryptorom and ‘pig butchering’: an evolutionary step in romance fraud
Cross, C. (2023) — Current Issues in Criminal Justice
Type: Journal Article
Country: Australia
This article examines the recent convergence of romance fraud and investment fraud, resulting in what has been termed romance baiting, cryptorom, or pig butchering. These schemes use the façade of a romantic relationship...
The Unpreventable Emotional Telecom Fraud —— "Pig-Butchering Scam"
Type: Journal Article
Country: China
Tags: victim experience, psychology, AI misuse, measurement, cross-cultural
The body of fraud literature documents a shift from traditional offline schemes to online telecom-based deception, with pig-butchering scams emerging as a notable example. This form has been highlighted as one of the ten...
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