{"id":2170,"date":"2025-06-18T21:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:03:36","slug":"what-are-pig-butchering-scams-how-to-protect-yourself-from-online-con-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/what-are-pig-butchering-scams-how-to-protect-yourself-from-online-con-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"What are pig butchering scams? How to protect yourself from online con artists."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/what-are-pig-butchering-scams-how-to-protect-yourself-from-o_g738.640.jpg\">The crude name shows you exactly what cybercriminals think of their marks.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, June 18, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/largest-ever-seizure-funds-related-crypto-confidence-scams\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> it had seized $225 million in cryptocurrency connected to pig butchering scams. The seizure involves funds stolen from 400 victims worldwide, and as <a href=\"https:\/\/cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/18\/doj-crypto-scams.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNBC<\/a> reports, it&#8217;s the largest-ever seizure of its kind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A pig butchering scam \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crude name shows you exactly what cybercriminals think of their marks. On Wednesday, June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}