Zero Hedge
by Tyler Durden
Monday, Aug 03, 2026 – 03:30 AM
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,
The FBI announced on July 31 that it dismantled four of the “largest scam compounds on Earth” under Operation Blackout, seizing $15.2 billion in assets and freeing thousands of forced laborers.
Scam compounds provide the infrastructure to carry out large-scale online fraud operations and typically employ hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom are captives.