{"id":110471,"date":"2023-10-13T22:44:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T22:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=110471"},"modified":"2023-10-13T22:44:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T22:44:25","slug":"the-involuntary-criminals-behind-pig-butchering-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=110471","title":{"rendered":"The involuntary criminals behind pig-butchering scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review\u2019s newsletter about technology developments in China.\u00a0Sign up\u00a0to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. There\u2019s something so visceral about the phrase \u201cpig-butchering scam.\u201d The first time I came across it was in my reporting a year ago&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2023\/08\/30\/1078663\/pig-butchering-scam-human-trafficking\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review\u2019s newsletter about technology developments in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/110471-the-involuntary-criminals-behind-pig-butchering-scams.jpeg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/110471-the-involuntary-criminals-behind-pig-butchering-scams-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/110471-the-involuntary-criminals-behind-pig-butchering-scams-300x150.jpeg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/110471-the-involuntary-criminals-behind-pig-butchering-scams-768x384.jpeg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/110471-the-involuntary-criminals-behind-pig-butchering-scams-1024x512.jpeg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/110471-the-involuntary-criminals-behind-pig-butchering-scams.jpeg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/110471-the-involuntary-criminals-behind-pig-butchering-scams.jpeg",1200,600,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/110471-the-involuntary-criminals-behind-pig-butchering-scams-1024x512.jpeg",1024,512,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/110471-the-involuntary-criminals-behind-pig-butchering-scams-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/110471-the-involuntary-criminals-behind-pig-butchering-scams-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}