{"id":978457,"date":"2025-12-04T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978457"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:46:05","slug":"us-authorities-shuts-down-website-linked-to-crypto-scam-operated-as-a-trading-platform-defrauding-lakhs-of-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/04\/us-authorities-shuts-down-website-linked-to-crypto-scam-operated-as-a-trading-platform-defrauding-lakhs-of-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"US authorities shuts down website linked to crypto scam, operated as a trading platform defrauding lakhs of Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Justice Department has seized a web domain linked to a scam compound in Burma that ran cryptocurrency investment scams. American authorities have shut down the domain tickmilleas.com, which posed as a trading platform but was actually part of a wider fraud operation run out of the Tai Chang compound, also known as Casino Kosai, in Kyaukhat, Burma. In a release the Department of Justice, announced the seizure of a web domain used to target and defraud Americans through cryptocurrency investment fraud (CIF) scams. As per the DoJ, the domain, tickmilleas.com, was used by those located at the Tai Chang scam compound (also known as Casino Kosai) located in the village of Kyaukhat, Burma. This domain seizure comes less than three weeks after the Justice Department announced the launch of the District of Columbia U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office\u2019s (D.C. USAO) \u201cScam Center Strike Force\u201d \u2013 the first District-level CIF strike force \u2013 and the seizure of two additional domains that were also used by the Tai Chang scam compound as part of CIF scams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Justice Department has seized a web domain linked to a scam compound in Burma that ran cryptocurrency investment scams. American authorities have shut down the domain tickmilleas.com, which posed as a trading platform but was actually part of a wider fraud operation run out of the Tai Chang compound, also known as Casino Kosai, in Kyaukhat, Burma. In a release the Department of Justice, announced the seizure of a web domain used to target and defraud Americans through cryptocurrency investment fraud (CIF) scams. As per the DoJ, the domain, tickmilleas.com, was used by those located at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978457","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}