Private-sector firms, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Justice's Scam Center Strike Force, froze more than $3.8 million in cryptocurrency linked to fraud schemes during an anti-scam operation targeting networks operating in Southeast Asia.
Dubbed “Disruption Week,” the operation was joined by Apple, Coinbase, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Silent Push, SpaceX, TRM Labs, and Zenlayer. Meta played a key role in coordinating the event and encouraging broader private-sector participation, the DOJ said in a statement on Wednesday.
According to the statement, the operation led to the arrests of seven scammers in Thailand by the Royal Thai Police Anti-Cyber Scam Center. Multiple scammers and scam platforms were identified and referred to U.S. authorities for investigation and possible prosecution.
Coinbase said separately that its contribution to the operation included freezing more than $3 million in cryptocurrency assets tied to the criminal networks. The company said the broader effort resulted in more than 1.4 million disabled accounts, thousands of Starlink kits terminated, and 63 arrests in total.
The effort also led to the decommissioning of servers, colocation environments, and hosting infrastructure linked to scam networks operating across Southeast Asia.
