Pig Butchering Scam

The Chinese term "sha zhu pan"  - it technically means to fatten a pig before slaughtering it - but this is also a term for an Internet scam, which is often referred to as Pig Butchering ......

Sha Zhu Pan - Pig Butchering

 ..... and in particular it is the term oriental scammers (Yahoo Boys in West Africa) use to describe for 'Love or Romance Scams'. These scammers also operate Business Email Compromise (BEC) and crypto frauds (aimed primarily at Americans and Europeans, but also elsewhere), money laundering and illegal gambling scams (these last two, particularly the gambling, are aimed more at oriental Asians).

Lazy Man's Road To Riches

Ramon Abbas aka "Hushpuppi" started out in crime as a *"Yahoo boy" which is the Nigerian term for men who commit 'romance' fraud .....

Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi
'Flexing' His Ill Gotten Gains

 .... by stealing other people's identities online, and swindling mostly foreign women out of money.

Love Lorn In London

Not very long ago I posted a story about an American woman called 'Sarah' who refused, despite all the evidence, to believe that she was being fleeced on a monumental scale by African fraudsters, and who continued to send money to her 'Italian American' Internet boyfriend named 'Chris Olsen'. 

Nigerian Scammer Alert

Of course she is not the first, nor indeed the last woman (or man for that matter), who has, or wiill have fallen for a photograph, and some email spiel, and then coughed up hundreds or thousands of pounds, to pay for a visa bill, or bail request etc to their 'dream lover'. This variation on the old Nigerian 419 fraud is known as the 'rom-scam'.