How an AI-Fueled Romance Scam Drained a Bitcoin Retirement Fund

Dec 31, 2025 - 18:45
How an AI-Fueled Romance Scam Drained a Bitcoin Retirement Fund
Key takeaways A recently divorced Bitcoin investor lost his entire retirement fund, one full Bitcoin, to an AI-powered romance scam orchestrated by a sophisticated criminal using deepfakes. Pig butchering scams are relationship-based frauds that rely on emotional manipulation and AI-generated deepfakes to build trust before extracting maximum financial value from victims. The scammer used AI...

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