{"id":1047725,"date":"2026-11-07T08:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T02:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047725"},"modified":"2026-11-07T08:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T03:21:46","slug":"cybercrime-networks-shift-to-smaller-mobile-scam-operations-amid-enforcement-pressure-fatf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/07\/cybercrime-networks-shift-to-smaller-mobile-scam-operations-amid-enforcement-pressure-fatf\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybercrime networks shift to smaller, mobile scam operations amid enforcement pressure: FATF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: With enforcement pressure mounting, criminal networks are breaking their Southeast Asia-based scam compounds, which are dens of international cybercrime that fleece victims of over USD 500 billion every year, into leaner and more mobile operations, a latest report from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said. <\/p>\n<p>In its report released from Paris, the global money-laundering watchdog said large, fortified compounds where cyber slaves were forced to commit financial cybercrimes are being moved to apartments, houses, hotels and office floors, sometimes rebranding as legitimate outsourcing or marketing firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: With enforcement pressure mounting, criminal networks are breaking their Southeast Asia-based scam compounds, which are dens of international cybercrime that fleece victims of over USD 500 billion every year, into leaner and more mobile operations, a latest report from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said. In its report released from Paris, the global money-laundering watchdog said large, fortified compounds where cyber slaves were forced to commit financial cybercrimes are being moved to apartments, houses, hotels and office floors, sometimes rebranding as legitimate outsourcing or marketing firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047749,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047725\/revisions\/1047749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}