It has been claimed in many reports that such scams are being carried out through organized criminal gangs of South-East Asia. These gangs are especially active in countries like Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
In the digital age, crimes are also happening digitally. Nowadays, thugs do not come to you and cheat you, but they cheat you sitting hundreds of kilometers away from you. You must have heard about credit card scam, ATM scam, digital arrest and video call scam, but you may not know about this scam, about which the Home Ministry has recently issued a warning.
What is Pig Butchering Scam?
The new scam we are talking about is called “Pig Butchering Scam”. In this dangerous scam, thugs usually target unemployed youth, housewives and students. A recent report of the Union Home Ministry explained how this scam takes away people’s hard-earned money in a moment. Let us now tell you how this scam works and how it makes people its victims.
How does this scam work?
“Pig Butchering Scam” means pig slaughtering scam. If explained in simple language, then under this scam, the thugs first win the trust of their victim by luring him, showing him profits and then empty his account. That is, pig breeders first make the pigs fat by feeding them and then slaughter them. The name of Pig Butchering Scam is also taken from here.
How to identify if someone is doing this scam with you?
You can easily identify the Pig Butchering Scam scam by paying attention to these things. If someone suddenly proposes friendship or romance to you on a social media site, dating site or any other platform, then be careful. Apart from this, if an unknown person comes to you with an attractive investment scheme through call or online medium, then also you need to be careful.
At the same time, some scammers first trap innocent girls and boys in their online love trap, win their trust, help them a little by giving them money or send them gifts and then, when they get a chance, they take all the details of your bank account and blow away all your money. The government has instructed that if you have been a victim of any such fraud or there is a possibility that you may be, then immediately complain about it to the cyber cell.
Where are the criminals committing these crimes?
Many reports on the internet claim that such scams are being operated by organized criminal gangs of South-East Asia. These gangs are especially active in countries like Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar and from here they are making people of India and other countries their victims. These thugs are also cheating people by luring them with the promise of well-paid jobs.
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