FBI Intensifies Crackdown on Thai Scam Centers Targeting Americans

**Executive summary:** The FBI and Thai authorities are working with regional partners to dismantle industrial-scale scam centers in Southeast Asia that use social engineering, romance and investment (cryptocurrency) schemes — including 'pig butchering' — to defraud Americans of billions of dollars; joint operations have seized thousands of phones and hard drives, frozen and recovered hundreds of millions in digital assets, and resulted in arrests and mass account takedowns.