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There is no unscammable person, only scripts that don't fit.
An infrastructure-level explanation of pig-butchering scams.
Step 1: Operator Training and Persona Infrastructure
Before engaging targets, scammers are trained inside organised scam centres, often seated in rows at desktop computers with multiple mobile phones assigned to each person. They are given detailed operating scripts and archives of past successful chat histories to study, dissect, and replicate, ensuring conversations follow proven patterns rather than improvisation.
After training, each scammer is assigned several social media accounts to manage simultaneously, with responsibility for uploading daily lifestyle content and maintaining the appearance of a real individual over time. These profiles typically feature high-resolution images of conventionally attractive people paired with a narrative of financial stability and investment success. Posts focus on ordinary routines — meals, scenery, workdays, leisure — designed to signal credibility and normalcy rather than excess, allowing one operator to run multiple personas in parallel while presenting each profile as authentic and independent.
Step 2: Relationship Management and Trust Conditioning
After personas are established, operators focus on maintaining daily interaction rather than promoting any financial activity. Conversations are designed to feel routine and personal, built around shared habits, emotional mirroring, and consistent availability.
Trading or investment may be mentioned only in passing as part of ordinary life, without offering advice or opportunities. This phase can continue for weeks or months, allowing trust to form gradually without triggering suspicion. No money is requested and no platform is introduced. The objective at this stage is not extraction, but conditioning — making the relationship feel stable, familiar, and credible before any financial action occurs.
Step 3: Platform-Based Credibility Transfer
Once trust is established, operators introduce a trading platform indirectly, without asking the target to invest. Victims may be invited to observe trading activity or log into a provided account that already displays significant balances and daily profits.
The platform is designed to look and behave like a legitimate financial service, with realistic interfaces, transaction histories, and customer support. At this stage, the operator and the platform appear to be separate entities, and no funds are requested. The purpose is to transfer credibility from the relationship to the system, allowing trust in the person to become trust in the platform before any money is involved.
Step 4: Graduated Financial Extraction and Exit
Only after platform credibility is established are victims invited to invest, usually beginning with a small amount. Returns are intentionally modest, and withdrawals are allowed, sometimes multiple times, to reinforce legitimacy.
As confidence increases, victims are encouraged to commit larger sums through tiered packages or account-linked opportunities offering higher returns. When withdrawal is attempted at scale, victims are informed that they must pay taxes, fees, or verification charges before funds can be released. These payments do not unlock withdrawals. Communication then ceases or becomes coercive, and the platform disengages. Loss occurs at the end of the process, not at the beginning.