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From the compounds in Myanmar that play host to Chinese-run scam mills, criminal syndicates have spent the pandemic perfecting an intricate romance-meets-investment fraud called Shāzhūpán (pig butchering scams).

Teams of scammers use sophisticated scripts to “fatten up” their targets, grooming and enticing them into investment schemes, before going in for the “slaughter” and stealing their money.

生词短语:

compound

住宅区; 小区

play host to

扮演主人翁的角色，这里指的是"容纳"或"是...的场所"

scam

诈骗

mill

工厂，这里指"诈骗工厂"

criminal syndicates

犯罪集团

intricate

复杂的

sophisticated

复杂的，精心设计的

script

剧本，这里指"诈骗剧本"

fatten up

使变胖;增肥

groom

培养; 训练

entice

引诱; 诱使

slaughter

屠杀，这里指"大肆诈骗"