This action, part of a new “Scam Center Strike Force,” disrupts operations linked to organized crime and prevents US infrastructure from aiding these schemes. US Justice Department has seized a web domain used by a Burma-based scam compound, Tai Chang, to run cryptocurrency investment fraud. The domain falsely presented itself as a trading platform, defrauding victims.
Tai Chang is affiliated with the Burmese group, the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) and the Trans Asia International Holding Group Thailand Company Limited (Trans Asia), which were designated by the Department of the Treasury, among others, as specially-designated nationals (SDN) on November 12 for links to Chinese organized crime and development of scam centers in Southeast Asia, according to the affidavit filed in support of the domain seizure. Additionally, also announced today, based on information provided by the FBI about Tai Chang scam compound, Meta identified and voluntarily removed more than 2,000 accounts from their network of social media platforms. In a release the Department of Justice, announced the seizure of a web domain used to target and defraud Americans through cryptocurrency investment fraud (CIF) scams. This domain seizure comes less than three weeks after the Justice Department announced the launch of the District of Columbia U.S.
USAO) “Scam Center Strike Force” – the first District-level CIF strike force – and the seizure of two additional domains that were also used by the Tai Chang scam compound as part of CIF scams. The tickmilleas.com domain directed users to download mobile applications linked to the scam from Google Play and the Apple App Store, according to the affidavit filed in support of the seizure. The United States Justice Department has seized a web domain linked to a scam compound in Burma that ran cryptocurrency investment scams. American authorities have shut down the domain tickmilleas.com, which posed as a trading platform but was actually part of a wider fraud operation run out of the Tai Chang compound, also known as Casino Kosai, in Kyaukhat, Burma. As per the DoJ, the domain, tickmilleas.com, was used by those located at the Tai Chang scam compound (also known as Casino Kosai) located in the village of Kyaukhat, Burma. Attorney’s Office’s (D.C. USAO’s Scam Center Strike Force’s efforts to combat Southeast Asia scam centers at the highest level and prevent U.S. infrastructure from being used as instrumentalities of the fraud schemes. The FBI notified Google and Apple of the fraudulent apps, and several of the applications have been voluntarily removed.
The seizure announced today is part of the D.C.