Global crackdown on email scams leads to 281 arrests, including in M'sia

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US DOJ announces that four-month operation also resulted in US$3.7m being seized.

Some 281 people were arrested following a global crackdown against email fraud syndicates through a method known as Business Email Compromise .

"I want to thank the Federal Bureau of Investigation, more than two dozen US Attorney’s Offices, US Secret Service, US Postal Inspection Service, Homeland Security Investigations, Inland Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, US Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service, our partners in Nigeria, Ghana, Turkey, France, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, and the UK, and our state and local law enforcement partners for all of their hard work to combat these fraud schemes and protect the...

 

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