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John Oliver did an excellent explainer about how pig butchering works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg

(apologies if the YouTube link has geographic restrictions, don't know if it does)

Came to post this too. It was a great piece on it. I'm glad more people are becoming aware of them. They're starting to get out of control.

One thing I didn't understand before his piece was how often the person who is trying to defraud you is being coerced to do it, sometimes in slavery-like conditions.

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