A scam called “pig butchering” gaining steam as a potent threat to Canadians almost lured this reporter — and it all started on Insight Timer, the meditation app.

“Pig butchering” schemes are on the rise, which refers to a type of online investment fraud. How this scheme works is a victim is lured into making increasingly large deposits, that are often in ...

Pig butchering scams have emerged as one of the most pervasive threats to cryptocurrency investors, with losses in the ...

At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into travelling to Thailand for an ...

(NewsNation) — The Department of Justice says it has seized the most money it’s ever recovered in one action in targeting the founder of a Cambodian conglomerate accused in a massive cryptocurrency ...

The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million — which he sent to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by scammers who had duped ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A cruel scam known as pig butchering has struck yet another Bay Area resident. This time, an elderly widow in San Jose thought she found new love online. Instead, she was targeted ...

When the creators of YouTube launched the website in 2005, they might have predicted the success of videos like Psy’s “Gangnam Style” and the parodies that ...