Foreign Scam Centers Targeted by US State Department
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
International scammers steal over $1 trillion a year, and now the United States is targeting the foreign networks behind them. The State Department, working together with the FBI and Justice Department, is now launching an effort to dismantle the scam networks based in various places in Asia.
We’ll discuss this topic and others in this episode of “Crossroads.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Crossroads. |
| 0:02.0 | The United States is now targeting all the foreign networks behind international scammers who |
| 0:07.0 | steal over $1 trillion from American citizens a year. |
| 0:10.0 | And your good friends calling you all through the night from South Asia might soon get a visit from the U.S. government. |
| 0:16.0 | Also, in other news, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, they gave an update on its campaign |
| 0:21.6 | to remove ineligible voters, or foreigners, maybe voters too, from public housing. |
| 0:27.9 | And this includes incidents where non-citizens are actually living in the same home as citizens. |
| 0:32.2 | Meaning, like if you're totally a citizen and your mom or grandma is not, you could actually lose access |
| 0:38.8 | to public housing. |
| 0:40.0 | This is a big deal. |
| 0:41.7 | Also another topic, the CCP has a new tool for transnational repression, exporting its |
| 0:46.7 | persecutions all through the world. |
| 0:49.0 | The regime is now using AI like chat GPT to harass people even right here in the United States. I'll be talking about |
| 0:56.1 | these topics a lot more today as well as talking to you, answering your questions. So make sure |
| 1:00.6 | it did like button. I'm reading the chat, Maldegard, Seymour, Ashley's mocking Jay. Good to see |
| 1:07.6 | all in the chat. Thank you so much for being here. Let's jump into it, okay? |
| 1:12.8 | All right, first off, it's happening. |
| 1:14.4 | It's finally happening. |
| 1:16.4 | International scammers who call you all through the day |
| 1:19.7 | and all through the night. |
| 1:20.3 | I know I get the calls all the time. |
| 1:23.1 | They steal over $1 trillion every single year |
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