FATF urges countries to disrupt scam compounds upstream
FATF says countries are stronger at tracing payments than at stopping ads, recruitment, domains, and phone indicators.
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FBI’s Operation Blackout Dismantles Scammers Operating Overseas Targeting Americans
FBI Operation Blackout seized roughly $17 billion, arrested hundreds, and freed thousands of trafficked workers from overseas crypto-fraud scam compounds.
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Detecting Deceptive Recruitment: A Signal-theoretic Machine Learning Framework for Early Identification of Labour Exploitation
Researchers build a multimodal ML framework detecting deceptive job advertisements used for labour exploitation, achieving ROC-AUC 0.87–0.97 across individual modalities.
US, Britain to coordinate on scam center takedowns
The US and UK signed an MOU to jointly investigate Southeast Asian scam compounds behind fraud that stole over $12 billion from Americans last year.
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