The U.S. government has been shut down recently, but it seems that several relevant departments are still insisting on working.
Moreover, they also built a big--
On the 15th local time, the U.S. Department of Justice listed the Prince Group owned by Cambodian citizen Chen Zhi on the list of transnational criminal groups and formally prosecuted it.
On the same day, the U.S. government announced that it had seized and confiscated approximately 127271 bitcoins, valued at US$15 billion (approximately RMB 106.9 billion), obtained from electronic fraud controlled by the Prince Group.
So that there are netizens joking that people have to regret that the fight thinking is important, but skill is more important.
If another 10,000 such companies are solved, the debt crisis of the United States can be directly solved. Compared with waging war, this operation is simply not too cost-effective.
Looking at the news, someone might ask.
What does South East Asia have to do with the Americans?
2. Bitcoin, which has always claimed to have a high security factor and is encrypted and circulated, why is all kinds of protection in front of the U.S. government, and it is confiscated if it is confiscated?
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Well, let’s look at the first question.
How did Cambodia's fraud park be targeted by the United States?
This is a little long talk.
The United States, as a large population country, is also a region of electronic fraud victims.
In 2020, a company called true Cola in the United States conducted a poll. As many as 56 million people in the United States have been defrauded by phone calls, and 17% of Americans have actually been defrauded several times.
What is the concept of 56 million people? The total population of the United States is 332 million.
Moreover, this includes only those who are identified and actively registered for fraud.
During those years, the deception of Americans came mainly from another faction of the international e-fraud group, the Tiger family.
Isn’t the English accent heavy?
Indeed, because India is constantly undertaking telephone customer service outsourcing for all industries in the United States, it is easy for American people to believe that the curry taste of English is true once they hear it.
In terms of combating electronic fraud, the U.S. FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) has cooperated with the Indian government many times, and after a lot of effort, some obvious results have finally been achieved.
Unexpectedly, the swindlers in Southeast Asia immediately filled this vacuum.
It turned out that after the destruction of the Electric Fraud Park in northern Myanmar, the three countries of China, Myanmar and Thailand jointly put pressure on the Myowadi Electric Fraud Park in southern Myanmar.
Thus, the cybercrime gang began to move to weakly regulated areas of Cambodia.
Thailand, which has been questioned by "Gayaozi", continues to put pressure on Cambodia in order to crack down on the fraud group that almost killed its own tourism industry. It also follows the operation on Myowadi earlier this year and directly disconnected several areas in western Cambodia.
However, in the government's closed-eyed Cambodia, these scam parks still operate normally.
A dense number of satellite antennas were set up in the park-they quickly switched to Musk's star link to access the Internet!
Of course, these criminal gangs have also discovered that we China are becoming more and more aware of prevention and self-protection, and we are no longer easy to deceive.
As a result, they changed the script for killing pigs and sent the phone to the United States in the Pacific.
In the last ten years, apart from India, Southeast Asia has also undertaken a large number of service outsourcing work from American enterprises and institutions.
When Americans answer customer service calls, they hear Southeast Asian accents, which is not new.
This gives the Cambodian electric fraud park a chance.
According to Fox News, US citizens suffered more than $10 billion in losses from Southeast Asia fraud last year, up to 66 percent.
The U.S. law enforcement has been looking at Cambodia.
At this point, it is necessary for us to move on to the second question-how did the U.S. government do it as it pleases Bitcoin as it pleases?
First, the illegal income of those criminal groups is generally money laundering by various means, cleverly “legalizing” “black money”.
For example, most laundry rooms in Chicago in the early 20th century had gang backgrounds.
Then let's look at the Southeast Asian electronic fraud criminal groups in the 21st century.
Today's money laundering doesn't even need to engage in any physical operation, just hire a few professionals and mainly use complex financial networks.
Typically, illegal gains are converted into virtual currency.
Objectively speaking, on today’s earth, any “currency” is impossible without a relationship with the dollar.
As a global reserve currency and world pricing currency, the vast majority of international trade, especially commodities such as oil and gas, are settled in US dollars.
For this reason, most of the cross-border international settlement systems are also directly controlled by the United States.
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Coupled with the "long-arm jurisdiction" laws in the United States, any transaction using the US dollar or through the US dollar financial system is subject to US jurisdiction. It is irrelevant whether the transaction location is in the United States, or whether the two parties to the transaction have relations with the United States.
So we see that the United States can often impose sanctions on other countries.
Moreover, most of these sanctions are really not "lip service". They can often add to the already poor economic situation of the sanctioned country, and even become the last straw that overcomes the camel.
As stated above, any “currency” must have a relationship with the dollar in order to gain its own value.
In this way, the United States '"long-arm jurisdiction" over the US dollar naturally extends to the virtual currency market represented by Bitcoin.
The U.S. official did not give a detailed statement on how it works. According to the analysis of some media, there is a high probability that U.S. law enforcement agencies have obtained the private keys of these bitcoins through various means.
In fact, this operation by the U.S. government is not uncommon; it is only the largest amount confiscated.
Bitcoin has been used by the United States as a tool to control and harvest global gray industries.
Earlier this year, the Trump administration specifically launched a “strategic Bitcoin Reserve” project, and legislation stated that as long as it was confiscated by the federal government, it would automatically be credited to the national reserve.
This is almost equivalent to saying that every online crackdown and cross-border confiscation will make the pockets of the U.S. government more and more bulging.
This is not even a "big conspiracy". As a clear policy, anyone can find out. As long as similar cases are settled, SBR will add another piece of "digital gold" and the U.S. government will happily harvest it.
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Of course, according to the rule, the U.S. Department of Justice also promises to return the victim’s assets after pursuit.You are not an American citizen and can apply to the U.S. government.
But the question is, "Can you get the money back?" is not a single word, but a whole tricky judicial work, crossing the three lines of criminal, civil and administrative.
Considering the effectiveness of the U.S. government...
Even victims in the United States may not be able to wait for a result, let alone overseas applicants.
Moreover, almost all the confiscated Bitcoins have gone through operations such as currency mixers, and the corresponding source has long been unable to find.
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In short, this operation of the Americans is not so much a "big country responsibility" as it may be more like another form of "pig killing plate"-specially used to harvest the world online.
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