This May be the Longest Pig-Butchering Scam Ever: Malaysian Woman Transfers 306 Times in 8 Years

A 67-year-old Malaysian woman has been deeply involved in a pig-butchering scam for the past eight years.

Malaysian police said this could be the longest pig-butchering scam ever against the same victim.

The victim first encountered the scammer in October 2017. The man on Facebook claimed to be an American businessman who was in Singapore for medical equipment purchases. The two have been corresponding online since then.

According to the victim, the man said he wanted to move to Malaysia but could not afford the expenses. So the woman agreed to help him and transferred RM5,000 to him.

But many years have passed and the scammer kept reaching out to the victim for money and came up with all sorts of excuses, sometimes saying that he needed the money for some personal reasons, and sometimes that he had business problems.

Over the past few years, the victims transferred 306 times to 50 different bank accounts designated by the man, totaling RM2.21 million. Moreover, the money included loans from the woman's friends and families.

Police added that the victim never met the man or made video calls with him. The two only spoke through voice calls as the man always used excuses to shirk from showing his face.

It wasn't until November of this year that the victimized woman was alerted by a friend that she had been scammed and chose to call the police.