Pig Butchering Women’s Literature, Psychologists Reveal Why They Can Be Fooled
KOMPAS.COM – Have you ever or often found friend requests from strangers who seem perfect in the media social? If so, you should be careful, because that person could be is an agent of fraud or scam circulating in cyberspace.
The motive is none other than profit, through a personal approach which invites you to get acquainted, interact, establish relationships to investment.
Among the scams or scams that have recently occurred in Indonesia namely Pig Butchering or means slaughtering / cutting pigs.
500 MILLIONS
The term pork chop is used because in this scam, the victim fattened first with the sweet promise of investment before the the scammers took the money away.
According to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Pig Butchering is a fraud with social engineering techniques by manipulating relatively new victim psychology.
Fraudsters ( scammers ) will usually build relationships and trust with target victims.
The trick, scammers can contact the target via social media, then build a friendly relationship or even put on a guise love to create a fake romantic relationship. Sometimes, scammers too disguised as an old friend of the target.
The story of a Pig Butchering victim from Indonesia, who was deceived by a man Korea to a loss of hundreds of millions of rupiah can be read in the article at the link the following.
HOW CAN THE VICTIMS BE entangled?
In general, according to Aulia, fraud in cyberspace has been organized, both with romantic scam/love scam and pig butchering schemes. In practice, the perpetrators of fraud already know how to handle victims, understand the process to the necessary timeline run.
As for the victims of the pork slaughter scam, you could say its not ordinary people. The reason is, judging from their education, the victims actually have a fairly high educational base. Then why can they be caught in this scam?
According to Alif Aulia Masfufah, clinical psychologist from the Cintai Diri Foundation Indonesia (Love Yourself Indonesia), scammers already have victim criteria based on the research that has been done, including: from social media.
The target is the victims psychology, regardless of background education, occupation, status or other matters.
