Lately, there has been a lot of talk about the multibillion-dollar online scam industry that has proliferated in Southeast Asia, where so-called pig butchering schemes run out of industrial-scale scam factories use trust to lure unassuming victims into handing over money.

These cons have not only swindled victims out of billions of dollars, but also fueled human trafficking and potentially even the Thai-Cambodian border crisis.

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about the multibillion-dollar online scam industry that has proliferated in Southeast Asia, where so-called pig butchering schemes run out of industrial-scale scam........

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