WhatsApp has deleted more than 6.8 million accounts allegedly linked to criminal “pig butchering” scam centres worldwide.

For years, organised crime networks mainly in Southeast Asia have been forcing thousands of people to run online scams .

The scam centres, operating from countries such as Myanmar and Cambodia, use people recruited under the guise of real jobs and trapped in virtual slavery , to extract tens of billions of dollars from innocent victims around the world.

The criminal operations, many of which emerged during the Covid pandemic and are commonly known as “pig butchering” scams, involve building trusted relationships with people online in order to manipulate and defraud them into transferring money into investment schemes, often via cryptocurrency.

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