# Marriage Market

The Golden Trap: How China’s ‘Pig-Butchering’ Scams Are Evolving to Exploit Filial Piety

Chinese scammers are deploying a '2.0' version of romance scams that targets anxious parents and utilizes physical gold purchases to bypass bank monitoring. By leveraging parental trust and untraceable bullion couriers, these syndicates are making it significantly harder for authorities to track stolen funds.