福克斯独家：FBI局长卡什·帕特尔表示，该局正在扩大全球搜捕范围，打击大肆掠夺美国人的庞大诈骗园区，他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“黑幕行动”已查获与这些骗局相关的约170亿美元资金。
FIRST ON FOX: FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau is expanding its global hunt for sprawling scam compounds that prey heavily on Americans, telling Fox News Digital that Operation Blackout has seized roughly $17 billion tied to the schemes.
“今年71岁了，我这个年纪的人经常成为目标，因为我们对某些新技术不熟悉。非常感谢你们关照我们，”一名受害者告诉FBI。
"At 71 years old, I'm old enough to know that people my age are certainly often targeted because of our unfamiliarity with certain new technologies. Thanks so much for looking out for us," one victim told the FBI.
“我看着祖母毕生积蓄被骗子骗走，真希望把他们全都绳之以法，”另一名受害者说。
"I watched my grandmother lose her life savings to scammers and I would love to see them all be put away," said another victim.
“黑幕行动”是FBI发起的全球行动，旨在识别、破坏并摧毁针对美国人的境外诈骗园区，将海外突击搜查和资产查封与切断犯罪网络通讯、解救被贩运劳工、追回被盗款物归还受害者等举措相结合。
Operation Blackout is the FBI’s global campaign to identify, disrupt and dismantle foreign scam compounds targeting Americans, combining overseas raids and asset seizures with efforts to cut off the networks’ communications, rescue trafficked workers and return stolen money to victims.
FBI结束打击掠夺美国人的全球网络的网络犯罪行动 帕特尔表示，该FBI牵头的行动针对的是在东南亚和中东经营大规模诈骗园区的犯罪集团，那里被贩运的工人被迫实施针对数千英里外受害者的诈骗计划。
FBI WRAPS UP CYBERCRIME OPERATION TARGETING GLOBAL NETWORKS PREYING ON AMERICANS Patel said the FBI-led initiative is targeting criminal syndicates operating massive scam compounds across Southeast Asia and the Middle East, where trafficked workers are forced to carry out fraud schemes against victims thousands of miles away.
“不幸的是，绝大多数目标都是美国的老年人，”帕特尔告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，并指出这些骗局通过社交媒体、电话、短信和Telegram实施。帕特尔补充道：“我们的‘黑幕行动’旨在预防、破坏和摧毁。”
"Unfortunately, the majority of the targets are senior citizens in America," Patel told Fox News Digital, pointing to schemes carried out through social media, phone calls, text messages and Telegram. "Our initiative, Operation Blackout, is to prevent, disrupt, and dismantle," Patel added.
FBI在跨洲“诈骗园区”打击行动中查获创纪录的80亿美元加密货币 在一种常见的骗局版本中，犯罪分子先与受害者建立网络友谊或恋爱关系，然后诱导他们进入虚假的加密货币投资平台。
FBI SEIZES RECORD-SETTING $8 BILLION IN CRYPTOCURRENCY AMID INTERCONTINENTAL 'SCAM COMPOUND' CRACKDOWN In one common version of the scheme, criminals cultivate an online friendship or relationship with a victim before steering them toward a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment platform.
受害者起初可能认为投资获得了丰厚回报，结果发现根本无法提取资金。
Victims may initially believe their investments are generating significant returns, only to discover they cannot withdraw their money.
“这些地方既是城镇，也是城市，”帕特尔在谈到这些成为诈骗犯罪目标的场所时说道，“实际上它们都是村庄，犯罪分子在这些地方强迫人们从事强迫劳动。”根据联邦调查局（FBI）的消息，8月份在柬埔寨占地约200英亩的O’Smach度假村诈骗基地开展的行动中，执法人员在三天内搜查了28栋建筑，查获了113个硬盘、15台电脑以及35箱证据。
"These are towns, these are cities," Patel said of the scam compounds targeted by the operation. "These are actual villages with structures where they force people into forced labor." An August operation at Cambodia’s roughly 200-acre O’Smach Resort scam compound involved searches of 28 buildings over three days and resulted in the seizure of 113 hard drives, 15 computers and 35 boxes of evidence, according to the FBI.
联邦调查局还在努力阻止美国人成为诈骗的受害者——在他们将自己的钱财交到诈骗分子手中之前就阻止他们上当受骗。
The bureau is also trying to stop Americans from becoming victims before their money ever reaches the scammers. SCAMMERS ARE COMING FOR YOUR MONEY.
诈骗分子正盯着你的钱！以下是绝对不能做的事情：在“Level Up行动”（该行动的国内预防项目）中，联邦调查局与美国特勤局合作，主动识别并联系潜在的加密货币投资诈骗受害者。据联邦调查局称，他们已经通知了10,406名受害者，防止了约6.6亿美元的损失，并冻结或没收了另外1.22亿美元的加密货币。
HERE’S THE ONE THING YOU MUST NEVER DO Under Operation Level Up, its domestic prevention component working with U.S. Secret Service, the FBI proactively identifies and contacts potential victims of cryptocurrency investment scams. The bureau says it has notified 10,406 victims and prevented an estimated $660 million in losses, while seizing or freezing another $122 million in cryptocurrency.
联邦调查局表示，他们联系的受害者中有77%的人根本不知道自己正在遭受诈骗。此外，他们还协助将99名受害者转介给相关机构进行心理干预，捣毁了584个诈骗网站，并将7,670个诈骗账户移交给私营企业进行处理。
The FBI said 77% of the people it contacted did not know they were being scammed. The bureau has also referred 99 victims for suicide intervention, seized 584 scam websites and sent 7,670 scam accounts to private-sector companies for action.
那个能让诈骗分子知道你是个“容易下手的目标”的秘密名单…… 9月份，由联邦调查局檀香山分局人员参与的司法部诈骗中心打击小组协助马达加斯加当局捣毁了13个由中国犯罪集团运营的诈骗中心，并没收了3,200多台电子设备。
THE SECRET LIST THAT TELLS SCAMMERS YOU'RE AN EASY TARGET In September, a DOJ Scam Center Strike Force team that included FBI Honolulu personnel helped authorities in Madagascar take down 13 scam centers operated by Chinese organized crime syndicates and process more than 3,200 electronic devices.
帕特尔指出，这种诈骗犯罪地的地理转移只是犯罪网络扩张趋势的一部分：“这就是为什么你会看到诈骗犯罪活动向中非和撒哈拉以南非洲地区蔓延——而我们已经在这些地区提前部署了力量，准备打击这些诈骗活动。”
Patel said the geographic shift is part of a broader migration by the criminal networks. "That’s why you’re seeing the migration of these scam compounds to central and sub-Saharan Africa, which is where we are already pre-positioned to take them off," Patel said.