Over the weekend,Horned Japanese Female College Student: Pleasure Share House we covered the rise of "wrong person" scam texts — seemingly innocent messages that evolve into full-blown crypto cons. And across the U.S., drivers are getting E-ZPass toll road scam texts in droves. Now, we have a clearer picture of where these types of scam texts are coming from.
On Monday, May 5, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against Myanmar warlord Saw Chit Thu and his two sons, accusing them of facilitating massive cyberfraud and human trafficking networks. According to the Treasury, Saw Chit Thu and his militia, the Karen National Army, oversaw multibillion-dollar crypto scam operations built on forced labor targeting Americans.
"The KNA profits from cyber scam schemes on an industrial scale by leasing land it controls to other organized crime groups, and providing support for human trafficking, smuggling, and the sale of utilities used to provide energy to scam operations," the U.S. Treasury reported.
In the Treasury's statement, the department claimed that Americans lost about $3.5 billion in 2023 to such scams.
Saw Chit Thu leads the Karen National Army, a militia based in Myanmar’s Kayin State. The army controls territory in a so-called "Special Economic Zone" near the Thai border. In this zone, the group has leased land and provided protection to transnational criminal organizations running "scam compounds" — heavily guarded facilities where trafficked workers are forced to carry out online fraud, according to U.S. Treasury officials.
The Treasury says the scam compounds primarily focus on crypto scams.
"Scammers present victims with hints of a wealthy, glamorous lifestyle and induce them to 'invest' in bogus cryptocurrency and trading platforms controlled by the scammers themselves. Victims are shown fake 'returns' on their investments and duped into investing greater and greater sums until the scammers go silent after stealing everything they can from their victims," reads a press release from the Treasury.
The sanctions will freeze any U.S.-based assets held by Saw Chit Thu or his sons and prohibit American individuals or entities from doing business with them. The U.K. and European Union had already sanctioned the group.
Additionally, the Treasury announced plans to sanction a Cambodia-based network accused of laundering money for North Korean cybercriminals. The group is also linked to pig-butchering scams and other fraud operations across Southeast Asia, per Bloomberg.
Have a story to share about a scam or security breach that impacted you? Tell us about it. Email [email protected]with the subject line "Safety Net" or use this form.Someone from Mashable will get in touch.
Topics Cybersecurity
This is the fattest of the extremely fat bears
10 biggest moments of activism in 2022
'Wordle' today: Get the answer, hints for June 6
Xbox's game streaming app is coming to Samsung TVs in June
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for May 12, 2025
A baby elephant pushed Melania Trump during her visit to the Nairobi National Park
Twitter user named Brett Kavanagh kicks off an impromptu support group
'Large Adult Son' has perfect response to mom's embarrassing #HimToo tweet
Keeping Hope Alive
Protesters shine torches, lights onto the Sydney Opera House
Best Max streaming deal: Save 20% on annual subscriptions
Watch Pattie Gonia, the world's first backpacking queen, strut
Wordle today: Here's the answer, hints for June 11
Most streamed TV shows of the week prove the Force is strong with 'Obi
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for May 12, 2025
Everything Apple revealed at its WWDC 2022 event
Hands on with the Dyson Airwrap styler
Has Instagram gone too far with ads?
Best robot vacuum deal: Eufy Omni C20 robot vacuum and mop at record
Here's how to turn on the Apple Watch 4's Fall Detection feature
Rules for Consciousness in Mammals: On Clarice LispectorSurface Noise: What We’ve Lost in the Transition to DigitalThis Nude George Washington Was Too Hot for the Nineteenth Century10 Tech Products That Are Next to Impossible to RepairReimagining Doestoevky’s “White Nights” As a BuildingColorful City: My History with Pride Week in the SouthWhere I Wasn’t When Manchester BledThis Nude George Washington Was Too Hot for the Nineteenth CenturyThe Key to Good Nature Photography? Trick the Animals.This Nude George Washington Was Too Hot for the Nineteenth CenturyA Hypochondriac’s Guide to Rare DiseasesRoadside MemorialsFive Complaints About PoetryStaff Picks: Samantha Hunt, David Lynch, John Ashbery10 Tech Products That Are Next to Impossible to RepairFive Limericks (in the Style of Edward Lear)In the Mosh Pit, Who Gets to Have Fun, and at Whose Expense?Having Trouble Sleeping? Read This.The Key to Good Nature Photography? Trick the Animals.Misplaced Logic: An Interview with Joanna Ruocco Morning News Roundup for January 28, 2014 The Habits of Highly Erotic People by Susannah Hunnewell T. S. Eliot’s Darker Side, A Poem by Maxine Kumin, and Other News Last Call for Our Subscription Deal with McSweeney’s! Coming of Age by Sadie Stein Common Language by Sadie Stein The Paris Review and Wikipedia Recapping Dante: Your Mid The Morning News Roundup for February 5, 2014 The Secret Sex Lives of Famous People Tomato Pie and Culinary Failures Strawberries and Cream and Spinal Injuries by Dan Piepenbring Sleeping Beauty by Sadie Stein Audible deal: Get Premium Plus for a year for $89 The Morning News Roundup for February 6, 2014 Join Sadie Stein and Rebecca Mead for a Discussion About Middlemarch The Morning News Roundup for February 4, 2014 Remembering Loehmann’s From the Margins by Dan Piepenbring Sadie Stein on the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibit “Gilded New York.”
2.4056s , 10131.984375 kb
Copyright © 2025 Powered by 【Horned Japanese Female College Student: Pleasure Share House】,Wisdom Convergence Information Network