Over 1.4 Million Accounts Disrupted in Cybercrime Crackdown

Law enforcement agencies and tech companies disrupted over 1.4 million accounts and underlying infrastructure used by scam networks across Southeast Asia. The joint effort, named Disruption Week, involved the US Department of Justice’s Scam Center Strike Force, the Royal Thai Police, global law enforcement, and companies such as Apple, Coinbase, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Silent Push, SpaceX, TRM Labs, and Zenlayer. As part of the operation, more than 1.4 million social media accounts, pages, and groups on Facebook and Instagram, as well as Microsoft accounts and Starlink kits, were disrupted, and 63 individuals involved in scam activities were arrested. The effort also resulted in the disruption of malicious IP address traffic and network connections used by the scammers, and in the decommissioning of associated servers and hosting infrastructure. Disruption Week targeted numerous fraud schemes operated out of industrial-scale compounds in Cambodia, Laos, and Burma. The scammers lured workers to Thailand under the promise of high-paying technical jobs, then seized their IDs and trafficked them to the compounds, forcing them to engage in fraud operations against entities in the US and abroad. The takedown operation also resulted in criminal complaints being filed against individuals involved in cryptocurrency investment fraud in Burma, and in over $3.8 million in cryptocurrency assets linked to the criminal networks being frozen. “Disruption Week shows what is possible when governments and private industry focus their efforts in tandem: millions of scam accounts interrupted, and criminal networks pushed of the US internet platforms on which they rely. This week’s results show our commitment to disrupting these schemes and protecting the American public,” US Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro said. 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