‘Nana’ lost more than S$64,000 to a pig-butchering scam – a mash-up of romance and investment schemes run by Asia-based online scam syndicates. Their victims include a significant number of Mandarin speakers. In retrospect, Nana said she trusted the scammer because he seemed well-off and ran his own company. She refused to believe it was a scam even when her husband tried to convince her otherwise. The impact on her family was devastating.
