PANews February 27 News, according to Decrypt, the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia announced that the special task force for scam centers has frozen and seized over $580 million in cryptocurrency from Southeast Asian criminal networks. Prosecutor Jeanine Pirro stated that the task force has made “significant progress” in freezing, seizing, and confiscating crypto assets from scam networks in countries such as Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos, and said they will return these funds to victims through legal procedures as much as possible.
The Scam Center Special Task Force was established in November 2025, coordinated by multiple government agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI, Secret Service, and Treasury Department, with the goal of combating transnational criminal networks profiting from “pig-butchering” scams. These scams use social engineering to induce victims to buy cryptocurrencies, then transfer funds through fake investment domains and apps.
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