Overview
- The agencies said Thursday the week-long March sweep, hosted at the UK National Crime Agency in London, froze more than $12 million tied to investment scams.
- Investigators targeted approval phishing, where a fake pop-up tricks a user into signing a permission that lets thieves pull tokens from the wallet with no way to reverse the transfer.
- Authorities mapped more than 20,000 victim wallet addresses across 30+ countries and disrupted over 120 scam websites used to capture approvals.
- Officials also flagged at least $33 million for further investigation, with partners reporting about $45 million in related stolen funds traced across linked networks.
- Private firms including Coinbase, Chainalysis, Kraken, Tether and Binance provided live screening and intelligence, and police said they contacted over 3,000 victims as recovery and new investigations continue.