Thai police arrested 12 South Koreans and one Chinese national after raiding an alleged scam call centre operating from a luxury house in Samut Prakan. The suspects allegedly posed as South Korean prosecutors or officials to threaten victims into transferring money, with police seizing 13 workstations, phones, computers, scam scripts and forged documents.

Tether froze $42.4 million worth of its USDt months before US authorities obtained a court order to seize the funds. Now, two Thai businessmen whose wallets held the stablecoins are taking the company to court, turning a $61 million pig-butchering investigation into a much bigger fight over who has the power to freeze crypto.

Meta has begun a limited beta rollout of Scam Alert on WhatsApp, using on-device AI to detect suspicious messages without sending private chats to its servers.

INTERPOL's Operation First Light 2026 led to 5,811 arrests, seized $293 million in criminal assets and uncovered more than 142,000 victims across 97 countries. The operation also exposed a Thai crypto laundering scheme that allegedly moved over $122.5 million from romance scams through a single wallet in ten months.

A woman lost a year's savings after scammers used an AI deepfake to impersonate Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan and convince her they were in a romantic relationship. The fraud used live video calls and fake royal documents to gain her trust before asking for money, showing how AI is making romance scams more convincing.

An investigation by The Wall Street Journal has found evidence that Trump's WLFI has been exchanging favour with the infamous Prince Group, a criminal organisation that ran a vast and inhumane "pig butchering" scam network in Cambodia.

The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Cambodian Senator Kok An and 28 individuals for their alleged involvement in large-scale “pig butchering” scam operations across Cambodia.

Authorities recovered $5.4 million in cryptocurrency linked to a romance-turned investment scam targeting victims across Florida and Massachusetts. Part of the funds will be returned to victims, including one who lost over $450,000, while the remainder will support ongoing efforts to fight crypto fraud.

US authorities have seized and frozen over $578 million in cryptocurrency linked to Chinese transnational criminal networks running scams that targeted US residents. The operations, often based in Southeast Asia, involved “pig butchering” schemes and trafficked workers, and investigators aim to forfeit the funds and return them to victims.

US federal agents in North Carolina seized more than $61 million in USDT linked to a crypto romance investment scam after tracing the money through multiple wallets with support from Homeland Security Investigations. Tether helped authorities freeze the funds, which are now subject to forfeiture.