The Chinese phrase sha zhu pan — pig butchering — was coined by the scammers themselves, who refer to victims as pigs and the months of daily good-morning texts as fattening before the final crypto cash-out. The post The crypto con called ‘pig butchering’ gets its chilling name from livestock — scammers spend months ‘fattening’ victims with daily good-morning texts before the slaughter appeared first on Space Daily .