'rendered': 'Thai police have arrested six Nigerians over their alleged involvement in an international cocaine trafficking syndicate and an artificial intelligence-powered romance scam that ...

Trafficked workers in Myanmar shared they relied on AI chatbots, satellite internet to target victims around the world.

In new research published today, crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis found that crypto-funded transactions for human trafficking—largely forced laborers trapped in compounds across Southeast Asia and ...

A Ghanaian national had pleaded guilty to scamming countless victims as part of a global fraud ring that engaged in romance fraud and business email compromise (BEC). The Justice Department announced ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

The number of cryptocurrency payments to suspected human trafficking groups surged 85% in 2025 as digital assets play a growing role in illicit online schemes, according to a new report from analytics ...

Digital swindles like business email compromises and romance scams generate billions of dollars for criminals. And they all start with a little bit of “social engineering” to trick a victim into doing ...

The Trump administration has announced an expanded campaign with Southeast Asian governments to dismantle transnational ...

Despite the massive crackdown on scam hubs across the Thai-Myanmar border since 2024, human trafficking is still ongoing.