埃里卡·基内茨（ERIKA KINETZ）报道：美国国会联合经济委员会对全球诈骗产业的一项调查发现，美国政府在打击激增的网络诈骗方面做得还远远不够，与私营部门的合作依然支离破碎且流于自愿。
ERIKA KINETZ The U.S. government isn’t doing enough to fight the surge in cyberscams, and partnerships with the private sector remain fragmented and voluntary, an investigation into the global scam industry led by the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress has found.
根据参议院民主党首席议员玛吉·哈桑和众议员唐·拜尔于周二发布的报告，政府甚至没有关于已从海外诈骗园区查获多少资金、以及有多少资金已返还给受害者的统一账目。
The government doesn’t even have a unified accounting of how much money has been seized from overseas scam compounds, nor how much has been returned to victims, according to the report, released Tuesday by ranking Democrats Sen. Maggie Hassan and Rep. Don Beyer.
v该报告引用了美联社和《前线》栏目对全球诈骗进行的历时一年的调查结果，呼吁加强各机构间的协作、对受害者的支持以及私营部门的更深入参与。
Citing findings from a yearlong investigation into global scams by The Associated Press and FRONTLINE, the report called for greater collaboration across agencies, support for victims, and deeper private sector engagement.
哈桑在一封电子邮件中表示：“跨国犯罪组织运营着庞大的园区，利用包括人工智能在内的美国技术对美国人实施诈骗，造成了毁灭性的后果。这一呈指数级增长的挑战规模，需要国会、政府和私营部门共同加大努力。”美联社在报告发布前获取了该报告，报告明确指出，尽管美国各政府机构宣布查获的速度在加快，但诈骗受害者想要追回资金是多么困难。
“Transnational criminal organizations run massive compounds that exploit U.S. technology , including AI, to carry out scams against Americans with devastating consequences,” Hassan said in an email. “The scale of this exponentially growing challenge requires Congress, the Administration, and the private sector to all strengthen their efforts.”The report, which the AP obtained before its release, made clear how hard it is for scam victims to get their money back, despite the quickening pace of seizures announced by a variety of U.S. government agencies.
联邦调查局向委员会表示，其在2025年向诈骗受害者返还了3.36亿美元。
The FBI told the committee that it returned $336 million to scam victims in 2025.
联邦贸易委员会报告称，其在2025财年向欺诈受害者返还了18.3亿美元，但无法确定其中有多少资金是在海外诈骗园区中损失的。
The Federal Trade Commission reported that it had returned $1.83 billion to fraud victims in fiscal year 2025, but couldn’t determine how much of that money had been lost to overseas scam compounds.
美国特勤局在2024和2025财年将超过7.7亿美元的被没收资产返还给了欺诈受害者，但指出这些资金来自一系列不同的欺诈计划。
The U.S. Secret Service returned more than $770 million in seized assets to fraud victims in fiscal years 2024 and 2025, but noted the money had come from a range of fraud schemes.
美国国务院表示，接受该部门支持的外国执法机构已查获“数亿美元低段”的收益，但要求国会向司法部、国土安全部和财政部询问详情。
The U.S. State Department said that foreign law enforcement agencies that receive support from the department had seized proceeds “in the low hundreds of millions of dollars,” but told Congress to ask the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Treasury for details.
综合来看，这仅仅占受害者损失的一小部分。去年，美国人向联邦调查局报告的网络欺诈损失近18亿美元——这意味着每小时损失超过200万美元。许多人甚至没有报案。
Taken together, that only adds up to a fraction of what victims have lost. Americans reported cyberfraud losses of nearly $18 billion — that’s more than $2 million an hour — last year to the FBI. Many don’t even report the crime.
报告还对以下情况表达了担忧：尽管犯罪诈骗网络正向更多国家扩张，但美国国务院的预算削减却取消了孟加拉国至少一个反诈骗项目，该项目原本一直在培训当地执法部门开展网络欺诈调查。
The report also expressed concern that even as criminal scam networks expand into more countries, U.S. State Department cutbacks eliminated at least one anti-scam program in Bangladesh, which had been training local law enforcement to conduct cyberfraud investigations.
根据联合国毒品和犯罪问题办公室上个月发布并由欧盟资助的一份报告，孟加拉国是全球诈骗活动的一个新兴枢纽。
Bangladesh is an emerging hub for global scam operations, according to a report last month by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime that was funded by the European Union.
美国国务院表示其在美国和亚洲拥有60名员工，他们将大量时间用于打击海外诈骗园区。该其向委员会表示，它“拥有在国际上打击这一威胁所需的工具。”报告敦促国会通过悬而未决的立法，该立法将强制推行统一的联邦战略来打击诈骗，并为受害者设立一个集中地点来报告损失和寻求帮助。白宫也一直主张加强联邦层面的协调。
The U.S. State Department, which said it has 60 employees in the U.S. and Asia who dedicate significant time to fighting overseas scam compounds, told the committee that it “has the tools it needs to combat the threat internationally.”The report urged Congress to pass pending legislation that would mandate a unified federal strategy to combat scams and establish a central location for victims to report losses and seek help. The White House has also advocated for greater federal coordination.
几位司法部官员向国会表示，私营部门公司应该更多地关注诈骗防范，但美国监管机构和议员迄今尚未为其创造清晰的激励机制。与拥有27个成员国的欧盟、英国、澳大利亚和新加坡不同，美国尚未将技术、电信或金融服务公司置于可能承担责任的境地——即如果它们在保护消费者免受诈骗方面做得不够的话。
Several Justice Department officials told Congress that private sector companies should focus more on scam prevention, but U.S. regulators and lawmakers have so far not created clear incentives for them to do so. Unlike the 27-nation EU, the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore, the United States has stopped short of holding technology, telecommunications or financial services companies potentially liable if they fail to do enough to protect consumers from scams.
阿斯彭研究所金融安全项目主任凯特·格里芬表示，虽然已经取得了重要进展，但美国仍然缺乏“持久、可持续的诈骗防范”。
Kate Griffin, a director at the Aspen Institute’s financial security program, said that there has been important progress, but the U.S. still lacks “durable, sustainable scam prevention.”
她说道：“我们尚未看到这转化为受害者人数的减少。而这正是真正需要发生的事情。”本文是美联社与《前线》（PBS）持续合作的一部分，其中包括纪录片《被诈骗》。请在PBS应用程序以及《前线》的YouTube频道上观看该纪录片。
“We don’t see that showing up yet in reduced victimization,” she said. “And that’s what really needs to happen.”This story is part of an ongoing collaboration between The Associated Press and FRONTLINE (PBS) that includes the documentary “Scammed.”Watch the documentary at, in the PBS App and on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel .