Brooklyn DA's office busts million-dollar 'pig butchering' crypto scam operation * Brooklyn Paper
Briefly

Pig butchering is a growing type of scam that defrauds residents of Brooklyn and the entire country out of billions of dollars every year.
My office's strategy is to disrupt these schemes by seizing and shutting down their online infrastructure, and to educate the public about ways to avoid becoming a victim.
Individuals in the chat convinced her to go to the website and download the app, on which she subsequently made eight deposits - seeing her profits rise to an astounding total of $387,495 in a brief period of time.
When she tried to withdraw the money, she was told she had to pay taxes.
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