Scam Center Strike Force

The Scam Center Strike Force was formed in 2025 and combines the power, reach, and resources of the U.S. Attorney’s Office with the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, the FBI, and the U.S. Secret Service to secure America against Southeast Asian cryptocurrency-related fraud and scams. The Scam Center Strike Force seeks to use all government tools available, partnering with the Department of State, the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and the Department of Commerce.

           The Scam Center Strike Force is investigating the worst scam compounds located in Southeast Asia. Strike Force teams focus on identifying and pursuing key leaders—including Chinese organized crime affiliates operating in Cambodia, Laos, and Burma—to bring them to justice.

           The Strike Force is working to seize and disable the U.S.-based facilities and infrastructure that provide the manner and means to execute these scams, which includes U.S. internet service provider and social media accounts scammers use to prey on Americans. The Strike Force will collaborate with U.S. companies to sever access to the scam centers and prevent U.S. infrastructure from being weaponized against American citizens.

The Strike Force Crypto Seizure team has seized and forfeited $401,657,274.33 in crypto currency from these schemes. The Crypto Seizure team is focused on recovering stolen funds and returning them to victims.

The Scam Center Strike Force will use every tool available to help secure Main Street Americans from these scams. With its interagency and public partners, the Strike Force will educate Americans on how to identify these scams, prevent generational wealth from flowing into the pockets of international and domestic criminals, and work with unwavering focus to return stolen funds to victims.

The Strike Force seeks public-private partnership to ensure that these corrupt scammers will immediately be cut off, preventing the United States infrastructure from being used as a means to perpetrate fraud against Americans.

           The Scam Center Strike Force is a collaboration of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia; DOJ’s Criminal Division, including the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Fraud Section, and Money Laundering, Narcotics and Forfeiture Section; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and the U.S. Secret Service. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island is also collaborating on the initiative. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Karen P. Seifert and Kevin Rosenberg are directing the Strike Force

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  If you have been defrauded out of your money by a Southeast Asian Scam Center scheme, please contact the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov.