Overview
- The Justice Department’s Scam Center Strike Force convened a cross‑sector ‘Disruption Week’ that began with in‑person meetings in Washington and coordinated actions with tech firms and foreign police.
- Meta said it disabled more than 1.4 million accounts, pages and groups on Facebook and Instagram while Microsoft suspended about 20,000 accounts and Starlink terminated thousands of connectivity kits used by scammers.
- Law enforcement linked online networks to real‑world operations in Southeast Asia and the Royal Thai Police reported 63 arrests tied to the campaign.
- Private firms voluntarily froze between roughly $3 million and $3.8 million in cryptocurrency after blockchain tracing helped investigators follow victim funds to criminal wallets.
- Officials said intelligence sharing identified previously unknown scam compounds and infrastructure, leading to referrals for further criminal probes and a pledge to keep scaling public‑private cooperation to disrupt transnational fraud and the forced‑labor operations that support it.