An American has filed a lawsuit over the loss of $2.1 million in Bitcoin in a scam known as "pig butchering" organized by a crime syndicate from Southeast Asia.
- Hector Gustav Gutierrez accuses Yan Shi Zhang of stealing 33 BTC.
- The scammers created fake crypto exchange websites to deceive victims.
- Gutierrez lost all his savings and retirement savings.
😱 Americans lost $5.6 billion in crypto scams in 2023.