Pig Butchering Scams
Meta, Microsoft, DOJ, and Others Disrupt Southeast Asia Scam Compounds
Jeffrey Burt | | Apple, Coinbase, cyberscam compounds, Department of Justice (DOJ), google, Investment Scams, Meta, Microsoft, Pig Butchering Scams, romance scam
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 ...
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China Has its Sights Set on Scammers, Just Not Those Targeting AmericansÂ
Teri Robinson | | adversarial industrialization, China scam centers, Chinese-nexus cyber activity, crypto investment fraud, Darktrace research., industrial-scale fraud, Pig Butchering Scams, social engineering infrastructure, Southeast Asia cybercrime, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
A new report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission reveals that while China is aggressively prosecuting fraud targeting its own citizens, it continues to turn a blind eye to industrial-scale ...
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FBI and International Agencies Shut Down Scam Centers, Arrest 276 People
Jeffrey Burt | | china, crypto fraud, cryptocurrency scams, Dubai, FBI, financial fraud investigation, Pig Butchering Scams, romance scams, Scam Center Strike Force, Thailand
The FBI and law enforcement from Dubai, Thailand, and China shut down nine scam centers and arrested 276 people in connection with crypto fraud operations that were used to target Americans and ...
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Service Providers Help Pig Butchering Scammers Scale Operations: Infoblox
Jeffrey Burt | | cyberscam compounds, Infoblox, Investment Scams, Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS), Pig Butchering Scams, pig butchering-as-a-service (PBaaS), romance scams, Southeast Asian crime syndicates
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 ...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘is Facilitating’ Scams via Starlink
Richi Jennings | | #CryptoScam, #InvestmentScam, #PigButchering, bank scam, bitcoin ATM scam, bitcoin scam, bitcoin transfer scams, Elon Musk, gift card, gift card fraud, Gift Card Gang, gift card scams, gift cards, GiftCardScams, Lauren Dreyer, myanmar, online romance scam, pig butchering, Pig Butchering Scams, romance, romance fraud, romance scam, romance scammers, romance scams, SB Blogwatch, Sen. Maggie Hassan, social media intelligence, SpaceX, Starlink
Low Earth Pork: Pig-butchering scammers in Myanmar lose use of 2,500 Starlink terminals ...
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U.S. Rep Proposes Cyber Privateers to Fight Foreign Cyberthreats
A GOP congressman from Arizona has filed legislation to allow U.S. presidents to license private cyber experts to investigate cyberattacks against U.S. organizations and citizens and recover stolen assets through a centuries-old ...
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Cambodia Arrests More Than 1,000 in Cyberscam Crackdown
Cambodian police and military arrested more than 1,000 people in a crackdown on cyberscam operations that have proliferated in recent years in Southeast Asia and now are spreading globally, ensnaring hundreds of ...
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US Pig Butchering Victims ‘Will’ Get Refunds — Feds Seize $225M Cryptocurrency
Richi Jennings | | #CryptoScam, #InvestmentScam, #PigButchering, bank scam, bitcoin ATM scam, bitcoin scam, bitcoin transfer scams, blockchain, Blockchain Analysis, Blockchain Analytics, civil asset forfeiture, Crypto, crypto cons, crypto crime, crypto currency, cryptocurrency, Department of Justice (DOJ), DOJ, DOJ (Department of Justice), FBI, fbi annoucement, FBI investigation of cybercrime, FBI Investigations, Heartland Tri-State Bank, justice department, money laundering, OKX, online romance scam, philippines, pig butchering, Pig Butchering Scams, romance, romance fraud, romance scam, romance scammers, romance scams, SB Blogwatch, secret service, Shan Hanes, stablecoin, Tether, The Philippines, TRM Labs, U.S. Justice Department, U.S. Secret Service, US Justice Department, USDT, USSS, Vietnam
DoJ, FBI, USSS yoinked USDT: Pretty girls plus investment fraud equals forfeiture recovery (eventually) ...
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Treasury Moves to Ban Huione Group for Laundering $4 Billion
The Treasury Department is moving to cut off Huione Group, a Cambodian conglomerate, from the U.S. financial system, saying the firm and its multiple entities laundered billions of dollars for North Korea's ...
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Asian Scam Farms: ‘Industrial Scale,’ Warns UN Report
Richi Jennings | | #CryptoScam, #InvestmentScam, #PigButchering, Amazon Phishing Scams, AppleCare Warranty Scam, bank scam, bitcoin ATM scam, bitcoin scam, bitcoin transfer scams, gift card, gift card fraud, Gift Card Gang, gift card scams, gift cards, GiftCardScams, online romance scam, pig butchering, Pig Butchering Scams, romance, romance fraud, romance scam, romance scammers, romance scams, SB Blogwatch, social media intelligence, United Nations, UNODC
Bacon Redux: Pig butchering and other serious scams still thriving, despite crackdowns in Dubai and Myanmar ...
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