The US deposited sanctions on a network of computer fraud operating in Southeast Asia, which is an effort to increase pressure on operations allegedly using forced bilk work a billion from Americans a year.
The Ministry of Finance Action, which was announced on Monday, focuses on nine entities in Myanmar, that it is said to operate under the protection of the already approved National Army of Karen and 10 in Cambodia, where the US claims that workers are forced to fraud with virtual currencies.
“Cyber fraud in Southeast Asia not only threatens the well -being and financial security of the Americans, but also submits thousands of people to modern slavery,” said John Hurley, under the Minister of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. “The Ministry of Finance will put the full weight of its tools to combat organized financial crime and the protection of Americans from extensive damage that these frauds can cause.”
The Ministry of Finance Department says Americans lost more than $ 10 billion last year due to fraud based in Southeast Asia.
This step is the latest in many events of US President Donald Trump to target what he calls the rise of extensive computer fraud that has spread in Southeast Asia. Job seekers are often attracted to labor camps under false pretexts and then, according to the US Treasury, are forced to threaten violence to perform online fraudulent campaigns.
“Using debt slavery, violence and threats of forced prostitution, fraudulent operators make individuals to fraudulent foreigners online using messaging applications or sending text messages directly to the potential victim,” Treasury said.
Operations that grew in the middle of the pandemic have been highlighted in recent months after a number of interventions in the region, with thousands of detained.
However, it advocates the Human Rights of the Cambodian government for not doing more in June, with amnesty International accusing the authorities in Phnom Penh of “intentionally ignoring” human rights violations associated with underwater centers.
While individual frauds may vary, they have a common purpose to throw away victims from financial savings. Initial approaches can be made via text or direct messages – and even calls to the expected incorrect number – but can escalate quickly, with goals encouraged to share remote access to their electronic devices and install software. In one practice in color known as “butcher’s pigs”, the perpetrators seek to persuade the goals to invest in a virtual currency or other fraudulent investments, thus feeding out a potential haul – and damage.
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