Philippine investigators say Alice Guo, ex-mayor of the Bamban town, owned the land on which a “pig butchering” scam center was built, housing ~3,000 scammers
most of them Chinese—slept between shifts as scammers. Nearby, police seized thousands of devices with fake social-media profiles and financial records. https://www.wsj.com/... Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : How a Young Mayor Turned Her Town Into a Hub for ‘Pig Butchering’ Scammers—WSJ got rare access to a criminal enclave in the Philippines from which Chinese gangs targeted people around the world, including Americans @felizysolo https://www.wsj.com/... https://www.wsj.com/...