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STB INVESTIGATION

STB Investigation began in June 2021 in response to the growing number of online investment and “pig-butchering” scams affecting victims internationally. The creator, a victim herself, resolved to work to investigate and raise awareness of organised online fraud and human-trafficking networks associated with scam operations in Southeast Asia (SEA) behind the crimes. She initially organized an initially volunteer-led team of victim-support volunteers, researchers, investigators and online fraud researchers…, mostly from Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia.

By October 2021 STB Investigation rapidly grew its media and investigations teams, drawing many from the US, which had the largest number of victims and monetary losses. To better support its work In early 2022, STB Investigations incorporated as a US nonprofit organisation.. By April 2022, the organisation reported having connected with 1,483 victims worldwide whose reported losses totalled approximately $256 million –averaging $173,000 per victim.

As STB Investigations uncovered more and more of the global money laundering networks and slave compounds in SEA doing the scams, it started educating the public and law enforcement of its findings. The perpetrators are not simply in a scam call center in Laos or a “technology park” in Myanmar. STB Investigations works to raise awareness of the organised fraud networks and financial infrastructure associated with online scam operations in Southeast Asia.

What has (STB Investigation) done?

Through real-time victim support, STB Investigations has reported helping individuals avoid further financial losses associated with suspected fraud.

(STB Investigations) has helped consolidate approximately 10 group cases involving around 600 reported victims and has shared case information with relevant law-enforcement authorities.

Knowledge of (STB Investigations) on the SEA scam industry has Feedback from law-enforcement professionals has highlighted the potential value of STB Investigations’ research and case information

(STB Investigations) STB Investigations has reported assisting in cases involving individuals trafficked into scam operations in Cambodia and Myanmar.

In one month of working with a California prosecutor, (STB Investigations)’s In one reported case, blockchain tracing conducted in collaboration with a California prosecutor contributed to the timely freezing of suspect wallets following reports from four California victims. Approximately $600,000 was reportedly frozen, with further action by law enforcement pending.

(STB Investigations) has established working contacts with cryptocurrency exchanges in connection with certain investigations and requests for temporary account or wallet restrictions.

STB Investigations has reported providing information to Taiwan law-enforcement authorities in connection with investigations into suspected international fraud, leading to the arrest of an international fraud syndicate operating in Taiwan.

STB Investigations has reported providing information that helped alert individuals to suspected recruitment scams involving Cambodia that saved some Taiwanese at the airport from proceeding to scam jobs in Cambodia.