{"id":221630,"date":"2025-09-10T03:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/u-s-sanctions-cyber-scammers-who-stole-billions-from-americans"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:35:12","slug":"u-s-sanctions-cyber-scammers-who-stole-billions-from-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/u-s-sanctions-cyber-scammers-who-stole-billions-from-americans","title":{"rendered":"U.S. sanctions cyber scammers who stole billions from Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-sanctions-cyber-scammers-who-stole-billions-from-americans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned several large networks of cyber scam operations in Southeast Asia, which stole over $10 billion from Americans last year.<\/p>\n<p>These operations, mainly those in Burma and Cambodia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/india-rescues-250-citizens-enslaved-by-cambodian-cybercrime-gang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">are notorious<\/a> for using forced labor, human trafficking, and physical violence, essentially operating as modern slavery farms that conduct online fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The scams vary from \u201cromance baiting\u201d to fake cryptocurrency investing opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned several large networks of cyber scam operations in Southeast Asia, which stole over $10 billion from Americans last year. These operations, mainly those in Burma and Cambodia, are notorious for using forced labor, human trafficking, and physical violence, essentially operating as modern slavery farms that conduct online [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}