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FBI’s Operation Blackout Dismantles Scammers Operating Overseas Targeting Americans
The FBI has dismantled overseas scam compounds accused of stealing Americans’ savings through cryptocurrency investment fraud, romance schemes, impersonation scams, and other cyber-enabled operations. Under Operation Blackout, authorities have seized or restrained roughly $17 billion, arrested hundreds of suspects and freed thousands of trafficked workers forced to conduct fraud from industrial-scale facilities in Southeast Asia, […] The post FBI’s Operation Blackout Dismantles Scammers Operating Overseas Targeting Americans appeared first on Cyber Security News.
The FBI has dismantled overseas scam compounds accused of stealing Americans’ savings through cryptocurrency investment fraud, romance schemes, impersonation scams, and other cyber-enabled operations. Under Operation Blackout, authorities have seized or restrained roughly $17 billion, arrested hundreds of suspects and freed thousands of trafficked workers forced to conduct fraud from industrial-scale facilities in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. FBI Director Kash Patel described the sites as purpose-built…
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