Feds seize $225 million in crypto from crooks who ran giant ‘pig butchering’ operation

fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/18/doj-225-million-phillipines-scam-compound-usdt-pig-butchering

The Department of Justice on Wednesday asked a court on Wednesday to let the agency seize $225 million from a so-called “pig butchering” operation—a term that describes scams where conmen build up the trust of a victim over time, and then trick them into handing over large amounts of…

This story appeared on fortune.com, 2025-06-18 21:02:56.
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