Mariana van Zeller
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We need to be telling you how to get there.
It was this whole ordeal.
It was like fucking insane.
It was out of a movie.
And in the end, they didn't manage to get her out.
But she was, not that day, but she was released a month later.
And she made it to safety.
But just to show how dangerous and difficult it is, even when they agreed to let them go.
They're called pig butchering scams.
Yeah, that's the name they give them because it's a Chinese expression.
It started in China.
It started as a domestic scam in China, actually.
And pig butchering because the idea is that you fatten the pig, which is your victim, and then you kill them at the end, right?
That's why it's called pig butchering.
But the idea is that you meet somebody online, and it's usually a beautiful girl.
And you create, you start a relationship with that person.
How do they meet them?