The Download: how people fall for pig butchering schemes, and saving glaciers
Rhiannon Williams
created: March 27, 2025, 1 p.m. | updated: April 1, 2025, 12:21 p.m.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there Gavesh’s journey had started, seemingly innocently, with a job ad on Facebook promising work he desperately needed. Instead, he found himself…
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