Seriously? $15 BILLION. From *Pig Butchering*?!
Right, so some absolute moron – or a whole network of them, honestly it’s probably the latter – managed to fleece people out of FIFTEEN BILLION DOLLARS using the “pig butchering” scam. For those blissfully unaware (and frankly, lucky), that’s where these assholes build fake relationships online, get victims emotionally invested, then slowly bleed them dry with bogus crypto investments. Like a goddamn romance-fueled Ponzi scheme.
The US government *finally* caught one of the ringleaders, Ruja Ignatova (aka “Cryptoqueen” – original name, right?), and seized $15 billion in cryptocurrency. $15 BILLION! It’s just… staggering levels of stupidity on both sides. The guy was running OneCoin, a complete fraud, and somehow people kept throwing money at it.
They’re trying to figure out how to actually *use* the seized crypto – because let’s be real, untangling that mess is going to be a nightmare of wallets and mixers and probably some offshore accounts run by even shadier characters. Expect this to take years, and most of the money will likely vanish into the ether anyway.
Honestly, if you’re falling for these scams in 2024, you deserve to lose your shirt. Do I sound harsh? Good. Maybe it’ll sink in.
Speaking of idiots and money, I once had a user try to convince me that resetting their router password to “password” was a perfectly secure solution. I swear, sometimes I think humanity is actively trying to prove Darwin wrong. Don’t even get me started on the crypto requests…
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