Whenever I hear the term "pig butchering scam" I struggle to distinguish it from the plain term "scam". Like, as far as I can tell it is simply called "pig butchering" because of the imagery of fattening a pig before slaughtering it. But I feel like in the past we would normally just call it a "long con", perhaps.
This sort of thing has existed for a long time, but this term makes it sound like something that is new or novel. Feels like the media is doing a bit of... "headline engineering", here.
This sort of thing has existed for a long time, but this term makes it sound like something that is new or novel. Feels like the media is doing a bit of... "headline engineering", here.