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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Pig butchering scam

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

WIBC

News

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

So the other thing we have to address is we had talked about a segment ago, I got this text message from, it was clearly some account not from any sort of government into you.

0:10.8

It was at mail.com. And it said, oh, you're, you have unpaid tolls.

0:15.8

It's so funny. While you were talking about that, I got a text. Hi, I'm Zoe. So you, okay, so Kevin said,

0:23.1

as you were talking about this. Kevin said that he had gotten one, two, we had discussed, that's

0:27.4

definitely spam, somebody trying to get you to click a link to whatever, but then you got into,

0:31.7

there's another thing that's happening, and I've had this too, where you get a text from a random number going something like, like you said, hi, I'm Zoe, or you'll get a text going, Kenny and I are going to the golf course tomorrow. Would you like to join us?

0:44.1

Hi, how are you?

0:44.9

And so we start talking about what are these? What is the premise? And then producer Carl, Tony's fabulous producer.

0:49.9

Yep. You said PBS ran a documentary all about this. Yeah, it was a news piece.

0:54.8

So this is, you know, I mean, it's PBS.

0:56.7

So it's not some random conspiracy theory show that I was listening to.

1:01.7

As usually you usually do.

1:03.2

Yeah.

1:04.1

So what's going on now is a thing called pig butchering.

1:07.7

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

1:08.2

It's called what?

1:08.9

Pig butchering.

1:10.4

And it's a criminal organized criminal. pig butchering. Wait, wait, wait, wait. It's called what? Pig butchering. Mm-hmm.

1:11.0

And it's a criminal organized crime thing where you get random text saying, hey, how's it going?

1:20.4

And some people respond, and the person on the other end says, oh, I'm sorry, I must have the wrong text.

1:26.2

But then she, quote,

1:28.0

she sends you a picture and she's an attractive lady. So there's like steps to this. First,

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