Thousands of Crypto Scammers are Enslaved by Human-Trafficking Gangsters, Says … – Slashdot

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday August 19, 2023 @03:34PM from the remember-me? dept. A Bloomberg investigative reporter wrote a new book titled Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall. This week Bloomberg published an excerpt that begins when the reporter received a flirtatious text message from a woman named Vicky Ho for a scam that’s called “pig butchering”. “Vicky’s random text had found its way to pretty much exactly the wrong target. I’d been investigating the crypto bubble for more than a year…” After a day, Vicky revealed her true love language: Bitcoin price data. She started sending me charts. She told me she’d figured out how to predict market fluctuations and make quick gains of 20% or more. The screenshots she shared showed that during that week alone she’d made $18,600 on one trade, $4,320 on another and $3,600 on a third… For days, she went on chatting without asking for me to send any money. I was supposed to be the mark, but I had to work her to con me…. Vicky sent me a link to download an app called ZBXS. It looked pretty much like other crypto-exchange apps. “New safe and stable trading
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