737: Winston Sterzel | Don't Lose Your Bacon in a Pig-Butchering Scam
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 12 October 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Winston Sterzel (@serpentza) is a South African vlogger and video producer who lived in Shenzhen in the Guangdong province of China for 14 years. He hosts his own YouTube channel as SerpentZA and co-hosts vlog ADVChina with Laowhy86.
What We Discuss with Winston Sterzel:- How does the pig-butchering scam work, and why is it called this?
- Who tends to be the most common target of the pig-butchering scam, and how has this changed since its inception?
- The psychological levers that get used to manipulate victims of the pig-butchering scam, and how they differ from more traditional scams.
- How much time and effort pig-butchering scammers will invest in fattening up their victims for the big kill (and how Winston has made a game of wasting their time and effort when he's been their mark).
- Warnings from people who have fallen for the pig-butchering scam and how you can avoid being next.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:02.8 | I mean, this is also why you see going back a little bit, |
| 0:05.8 | why sometimes they're very sloppy with their scamming, |
| 0:09.4 | is because they've got massive quotas to fill. |
| 0:11.6 | So they'll just immediately start talking about crypto, |
| 0:14.4 | just to see if they can get them on the line or on the hook, |
| 0:17.0 | because it's getting harder and harder for them to pull the scam off |
| 0:20.6 | as people become more and more aware of it. |
| 0:22.8 | More and more people are realizing that these are actually very dangerous scams. |
| 0:27.0 | It's not just some misnumber and a pretty Asian girl who wants to get to know you |
| 0:32.0 | and show you her breakfast or whatever. |
| 0:34.0 | It's really quite a big thing that's happening. |
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| 0:42.0 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
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