By the time Ayleen Charlotte realized what had happened, she was broke, in debt, and did not know what to do. Her boyfriend of well over a year was Shimon Hayut, the infamous "Tinder Swindler," and she was one of many women he had scammed out of nearly everything they had. The women were victims of a "pig-butchering" scam, a type of social engineering campaign in which the criminal spends months building trust with the target, just as a farmer takes time to fatten a pig before slaughter, befor
