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Thu, August 28, 2025
Crypto Firms Freeze $47M Linked to Romance Baiting
🔒 Several cryptocurrency firms, including Chainalysis, Binance, OKX and stablecoin issuer Tether, collaborated to block $46.9m in USDT tied to a Southeast Asia-based romance baiting (pig butchering) operation. Chainalysis traced payments from hundreds of victim wallets into five collector wallets and a consolidation address before funds were moved to intermediary accounts. At the direction of an APAC law enforcement agency, Tether froze the assets in June 2024, preventing those proceeds from reaching scammers.