Overview
- U.S. agencies leading the Scam Center Strike Force announced Thursday a coordinated crackdown that charged two alleged managers of a Myanmar compound and sanctioned Cambodian Senator Kok An.
- The two suspects, Huang Xingshan and Jiang Wen Jie, are in Thai custody on immigration charges as the United States seeks their extradition on a wire fraud conspiracy case.
- Investigators seized a Telegram recruitment channel used to lure workers into a forced compound in Cambodia and took down more than 500 fake investment websites used to steal cryptocurrency.
- Authorities said they have restrained more than $700 million in crypto believed tied to victims, and Tether disclosed freezing about $344 million in USDT in coordination with U.S. sanctions.
- The State Department offered rewards up to $10 million for tips on scam proceeds, as officials detailed compounds where trafficked workers are forced to run romance and law‑enforcement impersonation schemes.