U.S. prosecutors charged a Vietnamese national with laundering cryptocurrency tied to a pig-butchering scam that stole about $16 million from one victim who believed they were investing through a platform called Triangle. Court documents say his wallets received more than $53 million from 2018 to 2024, including at least $24 million linked to known pig-butchering schemes, and that the broader wire-fraud operation involved more than $125 million in cryptocurrency stolen from U.S. victims.
Why it matters: This shows the continuing scale of romance-baiting and fake crypto-investment scams, which can wipe out life savings and are still heavily targeting the public. People should be wary of online contacts pushing investment sites, especially those insisting on cryptocurrency transfers and preventing withdrawals.
Sergiu Gatlan
2026.09.29
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This article establishes a distinct scam-enforcement story centered on charges against Trung Nguyen Van and the tracing of a specific pig-butchering wallet linked to a wider $125 million fraud scheme.
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