When Jeanine Pirro says “compound” she isn’t kidding. [Check the Images] The DOJ took down a massive financial fraud operation in southeast Asia that was targeting Americans.
DOJ – “The Department of Justice, through U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro and Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Criminal Division, together with its partners, today announced a series of coordinated actions by the Scam Center Strike Force against Southeast Asian criminal organizations operating scam centers that have defrauded Americans of billions of dollars.
The Scam Center Strike Force’s actions include criminal charges against two Chinese nationals who managed a cryptocurrency investment fraud compound in Burma and attempted to open another compound in Cambodia, the seizure of a Telegram messaging app channel used to recruit human trafficking victims to a scam compound in Cambodia in order to work a law enforcement impersonation scam, and the seizure of 503 fake invesment websites, among other actions.” (more)
…”the scam workers specifically targeted U.S. persons. In the fraud scheme, victims received cold calls from individuals posing as bank representatives, including impersonators of JPMorgan or other U.S. bank customer service agents, warning them that their bank accounts had been used to purchase firearms from an actual U.S. gun store website. Victims were then transferred to individuals posing as “NYPD detectives” or other supposed law enforcement, and later sent to the “New York Supreme Court” or other purported prosecutorial officials. Through sustained pressure conducted over WhatsApp and Microsoft Teams, victims were induced to disclose their bank account information and ultimately transfer their savings to the scammers.” (source)
Has India outsourced their call centers?
Yes,to the Somalis I believe.
As long as Democrats get a percentage, it’s all cool.
Has anybody checked for ties to that Southern Law Poverty Center?
Oh my, you have to be either very low IQ, mentally failing, or very much stuck in 1975 to fall for this.
Account numbers over TEAMS and WhatsAPp? Are these victims from another planet? What in the world.
Do people that out of the loop even know what TEAMS and WhatsApp is?
I NEED to meet a victim of this, I need to satiate that curiosity.
If my grandmother were alive she would have fallen for it. All they need to do is get one person to do it and it could be a massive payday.
And these are the same targets of propaganda media. Now we can see why we are where we are today.
I can’t tell you how angry I am reading your comment.
My father is 90 and my mother is 88. My mother has severe dementia. My father is in the beginning stages.
The live in a nursing home facility semi independently. It won’t be very long until they will need to be in the “most certainly not independent wing.”
The used to receive 20 to 30 phone calls a day from scammers trying to steal their money. My mom loved to talk to these monsters and refused to let me disconnect their landline.
I had to get sneaky and turn off the ringer switch on their old 70’s phone so they couldn’t hear it ring.
There are millions of sick elderly people just like my parents getting scammed every day-and you ridicule them.
I pray that God gives you a new heart.
Thank you 💯💯💯 agree.
Amen, Dear Brother
My brothers (may they RIP) were both rather naive when it came to these monsters who prey on the older generation. I myself get scam text messages, phone calls and emails that sound quite legit. Some of them can be rather scary and very real looking and I can see why the average elder might fall for some of them. I have a friend whose young son (30 something) fell for one involving a failure to show up for jury duty. Hopefully, this is but the beginning of our government cracking down on these monsters. Maybe one day Readyandable1 will know what it’s like to be targeted.
Never mind older folks – I have a sister who falls for the most ridiculous scammers ‘because they keep calling’. No amount of logic gets through to her. I myself have lost my temper – and almost my sanity. I have an unlisted number which I must answer because new clients call me needing help. I get 15-18 calls a day from scammers trying to sell me medicare services and other things since I turned 65. I joke about wanting a witness protection program ! And yes, I am on the Do not call registries.
I stayed with my 84 year old mother for a year after she fell and broke her leg and she left this earth a year later and she got 10 or 11 calls a day.
100% were all from India and all the numbers that came up in the caller ID were local numbers and one time my moms Phone came up on the Caller ID.
They use the social security trick to try and gain older people trust before attempting to steal from them and not one SOB in government gives two 💩 and all companies that do business in this country should by force be required to have their call center here.
I received once scam call which had a rooster crowing in the background. It must have been Take Your Chicken To Work Day.
I agree, very elitist and off putting.
Amen Bruce.
20 years ago, after my elderly Dad, WWII hero got scammed, my brother and I had a friend of mine call him and impersonate a FBI investigator. Told him they were investigating the scammer and that if he kept dealing with the scammer after he was warned that he would be considered an accessory and charged.. LOL. That was ALL of the scamming,,, the end. Maybe mean but very effective. (and lay off the impersonating a police officer jive. I don’t care.) It helped my Dad.
Agree 💯💯 and thank you, as well.
omg some people… 😠
My condolences. Dementia is a cruel disease. My MIL has suffered for many years. Without my wife handling her affairs for many years, she would have been a victim as well… I often wonder how many medical bills get overpaid or purposefully inflated that are sent to our elders… My MIL couldn’t decipher or handle these for many years. These scammers are low lifes
agreed.
I have a 80 year old neighbor with early Alzheimer. She gets dozens of scam emails, texts, and calls all day long.
Every time I see her, she asks me if these are real and should she send them her info.
Last week, her son told me she thinks she got robbed of $23,000 from her checking account. Police and the bank are involved.
There is an extra hot section of hell waiting from these monsters.
Careful Ready&ableone…. Your “concern” stinketh of pride and arrogance…. You must be the “allknowingone” as well….
In the early 2000s my mother, in her early 80s, fell for the Nigerian 419 scam.
So yeah, those falling for these scams tend to be elderly and trusting of authority, especially those official-sounding phone calls from self-styled “finance officials”.
Watch and beware!
You YOURSELF probably will devolve in to a lower-IQ, mentally-failing elderly person who believes and obeys authorities, only to lose your OWN life savings in YOUR 80s.
And the younger folk shall mock YOU.
“You YOURSELF probably will devolve in to a lower-IQ, mentally-failing elderly person who believes and obeys authorities, only to lose your OWN life savings in YOUR 80s.“
Now THAT would be justice.
It seems you are unaware of the millions of senior citizens that get scammed a year. your comment is void of reality, hurtful, and just ridiculous. Do better.
My MIL almost fell for the Saudi prince letter/email that was going around until my SIL stated in no uncertain terms it was ma scam. Mom still went to the bank with the ‘check ‘ to see if it was real or not and they told her what my SIL had been saying all along, it is a scam maimed at seniors. Thankfully, hubby and me though we are seniors now also, do not fall for these scam. We were scammed once on a UTV for sale and never again.
Older generation boomers def fall for it
Susceptibility to scammers isn’t unique to any nicknamed generation. An elderly family member from the WWII generation almost fell for a scam, as well as one who was a veteran of the Korean War. And when whatever generation you claim to belong to reaches their senior years and mental acuity declines, you and your compatriots will also be targeted by these evil bastards unless something serious is done to eliminate them.
WhatsApp is a very useful app, especially for calls across borders.
What a nasty attitude. Supposedly you know all the facts about technology and your point is that other people are stupid, mentally failing, of very low IQ – stuck in 1975 and you are curious? Fancy meeting them? You are not pretending to be ignorant of the facts.
I got one of those e-mails and I didn’t open it. I called the fraud department at my bank. They said they took a report after I forwarded the e-mail to them. Sometimes things work so efficiently.
Hey Chyna, haven’t I suffered enough by having to buy your cheap goods?
I’m taking an art class this Spring, walked into a local Hobby Lobby to get some supplies… 95% of their merchandise comes from that communist country! The other 5% from the Yndians… Needless to say, I will not be making my art purchases there… every holy day, Christian or not (4th of July) is being merchandised by the communist…. and I thought, bc the chain store has “strong morals” and close on Sundays, that they also had a patriotic streak to NOT sell us cheap, chyna made junk…
I try to avoid Chinese crap but for some items it’s maddeningly impossible.
because our CONgress sent most jobs overseas. Sometimes what you wish to buy is not available ‘made in the USA’ so you must bite the bullet and buy the crap you know will not last or go without. Hubby and I try the ‘go without’ but there are some things you really do need like a replacement part for your washer, car, tiller or what have you. then the ‘bite the bullet comes into play’. But thankfully not often. Sometimes we decide to live without whatever was making life easier until an American model comes out.
“because our CONgress sent most jobs overseas.”
It would be very enlightening to see specifically how our rulers were enriched by doing that.
It’s going to be a verrrrrry interesting meeting with Xi when President Trump goes to Chyyyyyna
What about the CCP front group in Tampa, iGas? They are pouring money into political campaigns in Florida, DeSantis being the current largest receiver of donations. They are on big gov’s radar being they were find over $489,000 by the EPA.
China has been pouring money into the pockets of corrupt UniParty pols at every level of government for decades.
ChiComm corruption is a plague in America’s political ecosystem.
Democrats call out Trump for crypto scams, but it’s really their foreign paymasters who are the problem.
Now do California and Minnesota.
…and Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, etc…
People can no longer answer a call or text from an unknown number.
Our parents generation didn’t have that issue, more trusting I guess.
The Bible has much to say on the last days, how people will become more evil.
Good rule. Funny how most every call from an unknown number near leave a message.
They couldn’t be here without the knowledge and consent of the CCP.
And of the UniParty Deep State.
It occurs to me that a large number of UniParty Congress Critters are bought and paid for by the ChiComms.
Is it possible that President Trump is well aware of this and is doing the same financial strangulation to the UniParty that he is doing to so many of our other enemies?
Winning!!
Got a new scam call today. Seems I won 2 million dollars from Publishers Clearinghouse. While the guy did a good job of hiding his accent, I could tell it was there. Usually its a Medicare card. Have to be careful with every word.
Got an email solicitation from Mike Wendell (sp) yesterday for MyPillowTrial. Gave me a chuckle. I’m 80 but I can still remember names, somewhat.
Lindell. That’s a clue right there.
“Have to be careful with every word.”
My 93 year old father still insists on answering all the spam calls.
He replies to their statements in Polish, eventually they hang up.
A month after my wife died, I got an email about 2 high chairs ( she worked with
young children) she had supposedly ordered from New Jersey. For two thousand, three hundred
dollars. Informed said group that my wife was deceased, they insisted on continuing the charges.
Asked them what address the high chairs were being shipped out of New Jersey from, they were
very vague ( over the phone). Hung up the phone, called the credit union, and they told me it was
a phishing scheme, and they had had similar instances pulled on persons who had just lost a spouse.
Went back to the internet to reply to said group, and it had been yanked.
Two Chinese nationals. They wouldn’t be operating this scam without the permission/direction of the CCP who is getting a cut of the action.
It boggles my mind that anybody falls for these kinds of scams. My aunt was bilked out of tens of thousands of dollars through a similar scheme, but she’s too stupid and proud to admit it and insists they were all legitimate transactions even after my parents explained it to her. Would you believe she also votes Democrat?
Drone strike these scum bags.
Reminds me of the Beekeeper. Burn it down
I work in law enforcement and read all of my agencies police reports. Literally, hundreds of people fall for this every year – just in the county I live in. Scaling this fraud (it’s effective) would be worth billions of dollars every year.
Ace of Spades HQ:
China Made a Ton of Risky Loans to Third-World Nations to Bring Them Under Its Sphere of Influence. Now Those Loans are Turning Bad. China Wants the US to Bail It Out.
“This is such a disgusting demand to even make that I’m 90% sure that the “US” Congress will agree to to it.
Why Trump is doing this, I have no idea. I saw someone saying that he inherited this position from Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, but that doesn’t seem like a good reason to keep it.
WSJ Op-Ed:
I wish more people would have heeded Henery Hazlitt’s warning.
another swamp donor system bites the dust.
Once again, people with good skills and the necessary authority get results without yammering about it ahead of time.
Is it just me, or is anyone else wondering why these professional crooks have been operating for years and this is the first time the DOJ is going after them ?
don’t use social media and never open an email from an address you are not certain of.
minimize your info footprint. always give an incorrect social security # if you can. never sign up for free stuff. use throw away emails if you need to enter an email.
I never get such calls and have not–for the several years I’ve been paying attention. I’m not sure why, accept for a low profile “presence” like you describe. I literally never get them.
Very occasionally (every 3-4 months) I will get a call from a # I don’t recognize and simply don’t answer it. That has been my practice since cell phones became a thing. Same with stupid e-mails: seldom get them and don’t open them if I do.
I’n un my 80s – one of the Silent Generation, I guess – I was born in 1944. I don’t care to be a Boomer! It seems everybody hates Boomers.
Judge Jeanine Pirro is a national treasure!
and have to think she’s having the time of her life, back into the arena, and doing the job she knows so well!
DoJ, It would also be helpful if you would focus on the fraudsters in the US Government.
We are in our 70’s and have a landline. We were getting up to 20 scam and robocalls per day starting very early in the morning. I researched, and bought an AT&T landline phone system blocks robocalls and other unwanted calls. The system allows us to enter all the phone numbers that we want to allow to ring through to us. All other calls are blocked, and go directly to the answering machine. It has almost completely stopped all robocalls. Only one or two calls a day activate the answering system now that I assume are scams or robocalls. It took a few weeks for our phone number to get off most of the robocall lists. I tell people who aren’t in our “allowed” directory that we have call screening on our phone, and that if they start to leave a message, and we are home, that we will pick up the phone. This phone system has saved our sanity.
“It has almost completely stopped all robocalls”
I keep telling my father that answering the phone only spawns more calls, but he does not listen. He gets a kick out of talking to them in Polish until they give up and disconnect the call.
You are right. Every time you pick up the phone and say hello, your phone number gets passed around to more and more solicitors and spammers, even if you hang up on them right away.
OT: Nancy Abudu is under congessional investigation {1]
She served as the SPLC’s Director of Strategic Litigation (its top litigation role) before being nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the Senate in 2023 as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. This represents a move from SPLC leadership into a high-level federal judicial position.
Recently Appelate Court vacated the primilary injunction in “Alligator Alcrataz” case. Abdu dissented. [2]
[1] Jim Jordan demands SPLC documents after federal indictment is filed | Fox News
[2] gov.uscourts.ca11.92709.139.1.pdf
“..victims were induced to disclose their bank account information and ultimately transfer their savings to the scammers.”
I don’t understand how people can be talked into swallowing their own tongues. But there ya go..
The Apple Pay scammers called me last week. I kept them on the phone as long as I could until I got tired of holding the phone. They sounded real enough that I can see how many would fall prey to them.