Scam Type
Pig Butchering Scam Recovery Support
Pig butchering — sha zhu pan — is an industrialised fraud. Contact arrives through a wrong-number text, a dating app, or a professional network. Trust is built over weeks. Then a crypto investment opportunity appears, the first small withdrawal succeeds, and the deposits escalate.
Pattern
Weeks to months
Entry
Text, dating app, social
Scale
Organised operations
This was not naivety
These operations run to scripts refined across tens of thousands of victims, executed by trained teams — many of whom are themselves trafficked and coerced. Engineers, doctors, accountants, and finance professionals are all represented among victims. You were targeted by a system built specifically to defeat ordinary caution.
The small successful withdrawal
Almost every case includes an early withdrawal that worked. It is a deliberate mechanic: it converts scepticism into confidence immediately before the large deposits. Its presence in your timeline is a signature of the scheme, not a sign that the platform was ever real.
What makes a case workable
Cases progress furthest where deposits were made in crypto with recoverable transaction hashes, the funds reached a regulated exchange, and the loss is documented and substantial. Cases where funds went straight to self-custody and stayed there have far fewer options.
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