{"id":1736,"date":"2025-12-03T02:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2025-12-03T02:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:14:55","slug":"us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/us\/","title":{"rendered":"US Shuts Down Fraudulent Crypto Website Linked to Burma Scam Compound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-f24e63d9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-f24e63d9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-82.webp\" alt=\"US Shuts Down Fraudulent Crypto Website Linked to Burma Scam Compound\" title=\"Untitled design (82)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-82.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-82-300x157.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-82-768x402.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">U.S. authorities have taken down a website tied to a major crypto fraud ring operating out of Burma, in the latest effort to curb the rapid expansion of online investment scams across Southeast Asia.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The seized domain \u2014 <strong>tickmilleas.com<\/strong> \u2014 disguised itself as a legitimate crypto trading platform but was actually run from the Tai Chang compound, also known as Casino Kosai, located in Kyaukhat, Burma. The U.S. Justice Department announced the domain seizure on Dec. 2, noting the website was built to lure unsuspecting investors into depositing funds that never truly existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scam center disguised as an investment firm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the DOJ\u2019s affidavit, the platform replicated the look and feel of a real trading environment. It offered dashboards, \u201cprofit\u201d figures, and fake deposit records \u2014 all designed to convince victims that their investments were growing. The illusion often went further, with users being instructed to download malicious apps from the Apple App Store or Google Play. Those mobile apps were later removed after the FBI alerted the companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DOJ revealed that the website was registered only in early November 2025, yet victims had already fallen prey to the scheme within weeks, losing their digital assets in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This takedown follows two additional domain seizures earlier in the week, all linked to the same scam operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ties to sanctioned criminal organizations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tai Chang was discovered to have direct connections to sanctioned entities including the <strong>Democratic Karen Benevolent Army<\/strong> and <strong>Trans Asia International Holding Group<\/strong>. Both were recently added to the U.S. Treasury\u2019s Specially Designated Nationals list due to their reported links to Chinese organized crime and involvement in building scam compounds across Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its announcement, the DOJ emphasized that shutting down the domain is part of a broader initiative led by the D.C. U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office Scam Center Strike Force, which targets the infrastructure supporting international crypto fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meta also played a role in the crackdown by removing more than <strong>2,000 related social media accounts<\/strong>, based on evidence shared by the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Growing hotspot for crypto fraud<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Scam compounds have become a disturbing trend in the region \u2014 large complexes controlled by transnational criminal networks where trafficked or coerced workers are forced to run online fraud operations. <a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.ftc.gov\/articles\/what-know-about-cryptocurrency-scams\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/consumer.ftc.gov\/articles\/what-know-about-cryptocurrency-scams\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Crypto scams<\/a>, including \u201cpig butchering\u201d schemes, are among the most profitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southeast Asian nations such as Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam remain major hotbeds for these crimes, and global law enforcement agencies are increasing efforts to shut them down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October, U.S. officials executed one of the largest financial seizures in history \u2014 over <strong>$14 billion in Bitcoin<\/strong> \u2014 in a strike against Cambodia\u2019s Prince Group. Its leader, Chinese-Cambodian businessman Chen Zhi, was indicted for allegedly operating vast scam networks in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burma, specifically, has witnessed a sharp surge in digital asset fraud. Chainalysis data previously linked the KK Park compound in Myawaddy to nearly <strong>$100 million<\/strong> in stolen crypto through romance scams alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/bitcoin-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/bitcoin-3\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bitcoin Welcomes $732B as Tokenized Assets Surge to $24B<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. authorities have taken down a website tied to a major crypto fraud ring operating out of Burma, in the &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"US Shuts Down Fraudulent Crypto Website Linked to Burma Scam Compound\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/us\/#more-1736\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Shuts Down Fraudulent Crypto Website Linked to Burma Scam Compound\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1657,1669,1668,1667,1666,1662,1665,1659,1663,1660,1664,1658,1661],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-burma-cryptocurrency-related-scams-increase","tag-burmese-scam-compound-cryptocurrency-fraud","tag-crypto-fraud-prevention-news-2025","tag-democratic-karen-benevolent-army-sanctioned-entity","tag-fbi-removes-fake-crypto-apps","tag-meta-social-media-account-takedown-crypto-scams","tag-pig-butchering-scam-southeast-asia","tag-scam-compounds-southeast-asia-crypto-fraud","tag-tai-chang-casino-kosai-crypto-scam-center","tag-tickmilleas-com-crypto-scam-news","tag-trans-asia-international-holding-group-sanctions","tag-u-s-doj-crypto-investment-scam-crackdown","tag-us-authorities-seize-fraudulent-crypto-website","resize-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-82.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decentralnetwork.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. 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