Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro on Wednesday announced a new "Scam Center Strike Force" that aims to go after Chinese organized crime syndicates and scam centers in southeast Asia that ...

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As U.S. authorities announced the latest large-scale action to target Southeast Asia scam operations draining billions in crypto from Americans, they said they're standing up a new strike force to ...

The United States has established a "Strike Force" to tackle cryptocurrency-related fraud and scams operating out of Southeast Asia. The initiative targets scam centers in countries including Burma, ...

DC U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced that freezes and seizures of cryptocurrency by the Scam Center Strike Force have topped $580 million. These frozen and seized funds have been stolen by Chinese ...

Chinese transnational criminal organizations use cryptocurrency investment scams and a variety of confidence scams to steal the life savings of everyday Americans. Often using U.S. social media ...

Oceanfront high rises in the China Special Economic Zone in Ton Pheung, Laos, one of the countries targeted by the U.S. government's new Scam Center Strike Force (Image: Shutterstock) Cryptocurrency ...

On April 23, 2026, the Department of Justice announced charges against two Chinese Nationals, Huang Xing Shan and Jiang Wen Jie, for wire fraud, the seizure of $700 million in Cryptocurrency and the ...

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro has announced new efforts to crack down on Chinese organized crime and cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes. In a news conference on ...

The US Justice Department announced the creation of a new “Scam Center Strike Force” to combat a surge in cryptocurrency‑investment fraud by transnational criminal organizations operating out of ...

For too long, Washington has treated online scams as a consumer protection problem of victims, disputed transactions, and after-the-fact remedies. That frame is too small. The scam epidemic is a ...