Crypto Cowboys Lassoed: 276 Scammers Ride into Sunset… in Handcuffs
They called it Operation Level Up, a name that dripped with irony, for these scammers had been leveling up their schemes for years. Disguised as corporate investment firms, they lured their marks with promises of riches, only to leave them penniless and broken. “Pig-butchering,” they called it-a term as ugly as the deed itself. Weeks, months of sweet nothings, of fake friendships and false love, all to lead the unsuspecting to the slaughter. And when the trust was thick as honey, they struck, siphoning funds into phantom crypto accounts.

