NPR investigated a crypto scam company known as SpireBit, which stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from Russian-speaking seniors. Now, some of the victims are getting their money back after a lawsuit by Massachusetts authorities.

In a pig butchering scam, fake trading apps first available on Google and Apple apps stores and later on phishing download sites lured victims into depositing money into fraudulent accounts, which was then stolen,

Using a series of fraudulent trading apps, which were available for download on both the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store, hackers have duped thousands of people

Pig butchering is a type of investment fraud where victims are shown fabricated profits and asked to invest more and more money.

Cybersecurity researchers have reported finding multiple mobile applications used in so-called ‘pig butchering’ schemes, lurking on the official Google and Apple repositories. ‘Pig butchering’ is a type of financial fraud in which the victims - called ‘pigs’ - are first “stuffed”,