Out of curiosity are you a native Chinese speaker? I ask because I’ve only heard pig butchering scam in Chinese and I’ve never had anyone refer to it as such in English
No, but the majority of those who tried it on me had pictures of attractive Chinese women as their profile pic. Whenever I match with one now I just wait for them to bring up something about the "crypto market" and immediately un-match. Only learned about the specifics of it after reading up on eth liquidity mining scam on reddit.
"The term “pig butchering” refers to a time-tested, heavily scripted, and human-intensive process of using fake profiles on dating apps and social media to lure people into investing in elaborate scams. In a more visceral sense, pig butchering means fattening up a prey before the slaughter." - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/massive-losses-define-ep...