The recent experience of a seasoned security leader illustrates how fake job offers are increasingly being used as entry points for “pig-butchering” scams. Pig-butchering scams are a form of investment fraud that exploit social engineering to build a relationship with a prospective mark before butchering them financially, often through cryptocurrency or other fake investments. Fraudsters purportedly representing Gemini Crypto, a US-based cryptocurrency trading platform, tried to leave US ...
