Pig Butchering
The relationship comes first, and it is convincing
Months of genuine relationship, then a platform that takes everything.
The longest-running and most damaging fraud we handle.
It begins as a wrong number, a dating match, or a professional contact. For weeks or months there is no mention of money at all — just consistent, ordinary conversation. Many of the people we work with describe it as the closest relationship they had at the time.
The name for this pattern is unpleasant and we use it only because it is what the industry calls it. Nothing about being caught in it reflects on your judgement — these operations are staffed, scripted, and run at industrial scale.
These cases produce long payment sequences — commonly dozens of transactions across banks, transfer services, and sometimes digital currency. We reconstruct the full sequence, including payments you may not have recorded, and follow each to its destination.
We also investigate the platform and the identity behind the relationship. The person you spoke to is rarely the person in the photographs, and is frequently themselves working under coercion. Establishing how the accounts connect matters more for recovery than identifying an individual does.
Investigation process
We start with preliminary checks to assess whether your case can result in a substantial retrieval of losses. We then gather every piece of evidence we can.
Step 01
Full Sequence Reconstruction
Every payment across the whole relationship, including ones you can’t recall.
Step 02
Platform Investigation
The operation behind the trading interface and who controls it.
Step 03
Destination Tracing
Following consolidated funds through intermediaries to where they settled.
Step 04
Evidence File
Built for exchange requests, group claims, and law enforcement.
FAQs
Very. These relationships are built over months and are genuinely felt, and doubt is the usual state of mind when people first contact us. An assessment is a way of finding out rather than committing to a conclusion — if the payments went where you were told, we will say so.
No. Cases are handled by a single named contact, nothing is published or used in marketing, and we approach nobody without your instruction. We work on cases in this category regularly and the sums involved are rarely small.
That is normal and not a problem. Bank and card statements let us rebuild the sequence, and partial records are enough to start.
Partially, in some cases. Recent payments are more recoverable than old ones, bank transfers more than cash, and funds that stopped at an identifiable institution more than those that did not. We give you a realistic view at the assessment rather than after you have paid for an investigation.
Your assets should be fortified, recover like a phoenix
Scams and security threats don’t have to define your story. Our team is standing by to listen, investigate, and help preparenecessary reports needed for results.