Overview
- U.S. officials said a coordinated operation with the FBI, Dubai Police, and China’s Ministry of Public Security dismantled at least nine scam centers that siphoned millions from Americans.
- Prosecutors in the Southern District of California filed wire fraud and money laundering charges against several suspects, with related arrests also carried out by the Royal Thai Police.
- Court filings describe organized hubs tied to Ko Thet Company, Sanduo Group, and Giant Company that recruited workers and ran scripted outreach to draw in victims.
- The schemes, known as pig-butchering, start with friendly chats on social or messaging apps, then steer targets to fake crypto sites that show phony gains before funds are moved out of reach.
- Meta said it supplied data to law enforcement, removed more than 159 million scam ads and 10.9 million accounts in 2025, and recently disabled over 150,000 accounts linked to these networks as the broader probes continue.