Pig Butchering, The New Scam You Need To Know About
As the digitalization era develops, crime in the digital world is also growing, this is evidenced by the many acts of data theft, scams, and also cyber bullying. Recently, there is a new mode of scam, this mode is known as pig butchering, especially since there are already Indonesians who have become victims and lost up to hundreds of millions of rupiah. So what is pig butchering? And what are its characteristics?
Pig butchering is one of the fraud modes that is currently rife in the crypto investment world. This mode usually begins with a perpetrator promising large profits for victims or investors. Generally, the mode used by this perpetrator is to build trust from potential victims. After the victim feels that this perpetrator can be trusted, then the perpetrator will influence the victim to suffer huge losses.
It is called Pig Butchering because this mode is like a farmer who makes a pig that is farmed to be very fat and then slaughtered, this is useful for getting a lot of meat. This mode also works like that, where a perpetrator will build trust from the victim before being cheated through his fake investment.
In this mode, the perpetrator makes the victim believe by promising a large profit from the money spent on Investment through a fake platform provided by the fraudster.
The characteristics of the perpetrator that you should be aware of as a pig butchering mode are as follows:
1. The perpetrator uses a fake identity
People to watch out for as scammers are those who do not use their real identity on social media. As a result, the victim will not be able to recognize the face and identity of the scammer, making it difficult to identify. Not infrequently, the perpetrators display a luxurious lifestyle to deceive their victims.
2. Building trust
The perpetrator introduces himself to the victim and tries to start a conversation aimed at gaining trust. Usually the scammer will ask a lot of personal things, such as work, family, etc. The perpetrator wants to collect information to manipulate his victim.
3. Invite the victim to invest
If the perpetrator knows the victim well enough, the perpetrator will start inviting the victim to invest. The perpetrator will provide evidence that the perpetrator has successfully invested by obtaining substantial funds. The perpetrator even encourages the victim to sell their assets to invest with the perpetrator.
4. Run away and lose contact
Once the fraud plan is successful, the perpetrator will block your social media and personal contact details, then run away. The victim can no longer apply to withdraw the invested funds, even realizing that the website used is a fraudulent website.
Follow these tips to avoid pig butchering!
- Make sure to always verify the validity of the person inviting you to invest
- Always pay attention to the domain name of the investment website to be used
- Do not download and use seemingly dangerous applications as a means of Investment
This is the information about pig butchering fraud mode, hopefully with this information you can avoid this mode.
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