Security News > 2024 > December > INTERPOL Pushes for "Romance Baiting" to Replace "Pig Butchering" in Scam Discourse
2024-12-18 09:10
INTERPOL is calling for a linguistic shift that aims to put to an end to the term "pig butchering," instead advocating for the use of "romance baiting" to refer to online scams where victims are duped into investing in bogus cryptocurrency schemes under the pretext of a romantic relationship. "The term 'pig butchering' dehumanizes and shames victims of such frauds, deterring people from coming
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