Overview

• INTERPOL coordinated authorities in 40 countries between April and August 2025 to target cyber-enabled financial crimes ranging from phishing and investment fraud to sextortion, romance scams, e-commerce fraud and business email compromise.
• Investigators blocked more than 68,000 bank accounts and froze nearly 400 cryptocurrency wallets, retrieving about $16 million in digital assets.
• Authorities reported $342 million recovered in government-backed currencies and $97 million in physical and virtual assets as part of the five-month push.
• National cases highlighted included 45 arrests in Portugal tied to diverted social security payments affecting 531 victims and a $6.6 million seizure in Thailand in a business email compromise scheme targeting a Japanese company.
• INTERPOL credited its I-GRIP stop-payment system and the International Fraud Awareness Platform, while industry voices from TRM Labs and Chainalysis pointed to growing law enforcement–private sector collaboration to counter transnational fraud.