NBC Bay Area | Rental scams aren’t new, but tech helps criminals take the ruse to new levels. Erin West talks about a recent case in San Francisco.

Feedzai | Who is responsible for building a world of safer money?Not one industry. Not one agency. Not one country. It’s a shared responsibility.

Frontiers in Psychology | Abstract: In digital arrest fraud, criminals impersonate authorities to falsely claim the right to arrest a target through digital means and put them under house arrest.

Bloomberg | Scammers impersonating law enforcement told Ruchika she was a suspect in a financial crime. They put her under “house arrest” to isolate, intimidate, and manipulate her to hand over all the money she had.

Mekong Independent | Lured from Lesotho for the promise of a job in a Cambodian casino, Kenzo instead found himself trafficked to a scam compound. Once released, he had nowhere to go and no money for a plane ticket to get home.

Blue Dragon | A report examines the experience of Chinese and Vietnamese victims of trafficking into scam compounds. Survivors are seen as offenders, even if it was forced through violence, coercion, and exploitation.

Bloomberg | With increased attention on Cambodian scam compounds, the crime groups behind them are moving operations to countries like Sri Lanka, where they’ve found an environment with advantages for scam activity.

The New York Times | By the time they walk into a bank to make a withdrawal, scam targets have been groomed to believe that anyone who tries to stop them can’t be trusted.

Sumsub | Erin West traveled to Cambodia to investigate the scam industry and separate fact from fiction, image from reality. The news about crackdowns was in the headlines. But what she found didn’t match.

ABC7 | A caller told a mother that they’d kidnapped her daughter. And they said they had proof. She heard her daughter’s panicked voice.

Press Release: The Select Committee on China has released a new investigation exposing a China-linked scam center network that has defrauded Americans of at least $10 billion annually.

Operation Shamrock’s Erin West testified about the scam industry before The House Select Committee on China on May 19, 2026.

Coindesk | The largest bitcoin ATM operator in North America, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Bitcoin Depot has blamed state regulations and enforcement for making its business model unsustainable.

Center for Countering Digital Hate | How Meta profited at least $12 million in a single year from ads promoting Medicare Advantage scams — and how government policies need to change.

Singapore Police Force | In a joint operation with five major banks, the Singapore Police Force Anti-Scam Centre used robotic process automation (RPA) for upstream detection of potential scam victims.

Center for Countering Digital Hate | A new report reveals how Meta’s advertising platform fuels the spread of Medicare Advantage scams targeting older Americans.

KTVU Fox 2 | Santa Clara County has sued Meta, alleging that the company knowingly promotes and profits from billions of fraudulent ads, generating an estimated $7 billion in scam ad revenue every year.

The Wilson Center | Distinguished Fellow Ken Westbrook advocates prioritizing transnational cybercrime as a core bilateral priority for the United States and China.