The DOJ, Microsoft, Meta, and other international law enforcement agencies and private-sector companies launched a sprawling initiative targeting scam compound operators running various investment and cryptocurrency schemes, resulting in the freezing of ...

Cyber-driven fraud – from investment schemes to business email compromise (BEC) to confidence and romance scams – accounted for almost 85% of the losses Americans suffered through fraud crimes last year, totaling ...

AI is giving online romance scammers even more ways to hide and accelerate their schemes while making it more difficult for people to detect fraud operations that are resulting in billions of ...

The influence of Chinese money laundering networks has skyrocketed since 2020, with the operations now moving almost 20% of all illicit cryptocurrency being laundered last year, according to Chainalysis researchers. In 2025, ...

Service providers are delivering infrastructure, tools, and expertise and giving rise to pig-butchering-as-a-service models that are enabling the Asian crime syndicates running massive investment and romance scams to through industrial-scale compounds around ...

Authorities in 14 African countries arrested 260 people, seized 1,235 electronic devices and took down 18 criminal infrastructures in a sprawling Interpol operation aimed at the growing global problem of romance and ...