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Federal regulators permanently closed a company that exploited vulnerable sextortion victims, charging them up to $20,000 for services often never delivered. Free alternatives exist to help victims remove intimate images from the internet.
A historic crackdown on West African fraud networks rescued 117 people forced into scam operations while removing millions of fake accounts. Ten countries and 15 tech companies worked together to arrest 28 suspects and identify over 30 scam centers.
A massive FBI operation across Ghana and Nigeria rescued more than 120 people forced to run fraud schemes while arresting 28 scammers and shutting down millions of fake social media accounts. The global crackdown has now saved Americans from losing $670 million to overseas scam networks.
Prosecutors from 20 countries met in Russia to strengthen cooperation against cybercrimes targeting children. Saudi Arabia called for global partnerships to keep pace with evolving digital threats.
Countries across the globe are finally matching the speed of online scammers with a powerful new alliance. Twenty-eight nations just signed a declaration to share intelligence, freeze assets, and protect victims faster than criminals can move.
Malaysian police dismantled 32 online scam operations in a single day, arresting 335 people and seizing $245,000 in equipment used to run international fraud schemes. The July raid in Forest City, Johor targeted call centers that lured victims through fake investment and romance scams.
The FBI just led the largest international scam center takedown in history, rescuing trafficking victims and stopping criminals from stealing billions from Americans. Working with 18 countries, they've shut down industrial-scale fraud operations across Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
An international fraud network that stole over €100 million monthly from victims has been largely dismantled by Dutch police. The takedown protects countless people from losing their life savings to fake investment schemes.
International authorities just dismantled a massive cybercrime "assembly line" that enabled hackers to steal millions of login credentials and ransom payments. The coordinated takedown disrupted over 200 criminal servers and freed 18,000 infected computers.
Karnataka's Cyber Command just shut down nearly 9,000 illegal betting websites that were draining life savings from thousands of Indians. The nationwide operation marks one of the country's largest strikes against online gambling fraud.
Italian police just dismantled a sophisticated streaming piracy network that stole €300 million from entertainment platforms, using breakthrough technology that made pirates nearly impossible to trace. The international operation seized servers across three countries and recovered the source code behind the unprecedented scheme.
When Arvind Gupta lost just $120 to a fake trading app, he didn't stay silent. His police complaint helped catch three scammers who had stolen over $108 million from 600 people.