Interpol Nabs $50 Million and 2,000 Alleged Scammers in Crackdown on Social Engineering
The two-month operation, codenamed “First Light 2022,” was coordinated between Interpol and local police agencies in countries all around the world, according to a
distributed Wednesday. In the course of the investigation, police say they identified 3,000 different suspects, froze 4,000 bank accounts, arrested “somewhile conducting raids at 1,770 locations worldwide. Among the captured was a Chinese national whoPonzi scheme that police say involved some 24,000 victims and the theft of 34 million euros.
is critical to providing police the world over with a coordinated tactical response,” said Rory Corcoran, Director of Interpol’s“The transnational and digital nature of different types of telecom and social engineering fraud continues to present grave challenges for local police authorities, because perpetrators operate from a different country or even continent than their victims and keep updating their fraud schemes,” said Duan Daqi, Head of the Interpolprovides a unique platform for police...