Overview
- Authorities disclosed Thursday that the NCA-led sprint with the U.S. Secret Service and Canadian partners froze more than $12 million tied to crypto fraud.
- Investigators say linked flows total about $45 million after tracing funds across approval‑phishing networks that drain wallets when users approve fake prompts.
- Teams identified more than 20,000 victim‑linked wallets across over 30 countries in a week of work at the NCA’s London headquarters in March.
- The operation disrupted more than 120 scam domains and agents directly contacted thousands of victims to safeguard or return assets.
- Private partners including Coinbase, Binance, Chainalysis, Kraken and Tether supplied live screening and intelligence, and follow‑up probes continue on an additional $33 million flagged, building on 2024’s Project Atlas and feeding broader anti‑fraud strategy talks.