Southeast Asian online investment fraud companies have gone global: they are no longer limited to targeting Chinese citizens living in China. Scammers have now been also going after overseas Chinese, Europeans, Americans, Japanese, and Koreans indiscriminately; the wake of these scams has been shocking the world. Officials of various countries have now issued warnings and urged vigilance against Pig-butchering (shazhupan, 殺豬盤) scams. The protagonist of our story today, Xiaoli