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FBI shuts down 241 crypto fraud websites in multimillion-dollar US crackdown

  • —241 fraudulent websites taken offline and 112 servers seized in the US and Eastern Europe
  • —Victims were Russian-speaking Americans lured through Facebook ads
  • —Brooklyn prosecutors have now seized more than 400 domains in total
  • —US crypto fraud losses reached $11.4 billion in 2025, up 22% year over year
Why it matters: The operation shows authorities are increasingly tracing stolen crypto on-chain and dismantling fraud infrastructure rather than only targeting individual scammers.
Source: Newsbit
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