71 months—roughly 5 years and 11 months.

Sze Man Yu Inos specifically targets elderly women in Saipan and Guam, using the line “You’re just like my mother” to open the door to trust.

This is not an ordinary “pig-butchering” scam; it’s a compound fraud combining emotional manipulation and cryptocurrency.

Most scams talk about “high returns”—hundredfold coins, profitable quantitative trading, AI algorithms that take you soaring.

She uses a different script: “emotional connection.”

First, she spends time building a relationship so you feel like you’ve encountered a “benefactor” or “a family member,” and then, only afterward, “casually” mentions, “I’m investing in Bitcoin, and it’s going really well.” Victims aren’t chasing huge profits; they’re “helping someone who’s like a daughter.”

This angle is harder to prevent than plain “greed.”

Even more noteworthy is the geographical selection—Saipan and Guam.

These two places are far from the U.S. mainland. Their population is mainly Asian, they have a high proportion of elderly residents, and financial education resources are relatively limited. Choosing the scam targets here shows this is a calculated, targeted strategy—not a random net cast everywhere.

A 71-month prison term corresponds to $760k in compensation plus $680k in confiscation—together about $1.45 million, while the scam lasted only a little over 1 year.

On average, they defrauded over a hundred thousand dollars per month, with a 6-year sentence.

Is this serious? That depends on one’s perspective. But the U.S. Department of Justice clearly wants to send a message through this case: cryptocurrency scams are not a gray area—they are federal felonies.

The last figure is the real warning—

Last year, losses from cryptocurrency fraud totaled $11.3 billion, setting a record.

Yuki is just a tiny speck among these $11.3 billion. But each speck could be an elderly woman’s entire savings. ##WCTC交易王PK