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The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Philippines-based Funnull Tech for allegedly enabling a $200 million crypto scam through infrastructure support. Chinese national Liu Lizhi was also sanctioned for his role in facilitating large-scale “pig butchering” fraud schemes. The U.S. Treasury just hit Funnull Technology Inc.—a Philippines-based tech company—with sanctions for allegedly helping run a massive crypto scam that affected victims out of roughly $200 million. The move comes as U.S. authorities crack down harder on how crypto tools are being used to fuel organized online fraud. How Funnull Got Caught Up in Pig Butchering Scams The Treasury says Funnull played a crucial role in helping scam networks pull off what’s known as “pig butchering” schemes—where scammers build fake online relationships to win people’s trust, then convince them to dump money into bogus crypto investments. Funnull allegedly helped them scale by buying huge batches of IP addresses and flipping them to fraud rings, who used them to run shady websites. The U.S. also slapped sanctions on Liu Lizhi, a 40-year-old Chinese national who’s being called one of the main players behind Funnull. Officials say Liu wasn’t just involved, he was basically running the show, handling key parts of the operation that helped these scams take off and keep going. By giving these scammers the tools they needed to look legit and stay under the radar, Funnull basically helped them run their cons without getting caught. That kind of support lets fraud rings hit people across different apps and platforms, wiping out life savings before vanishing into thin air. Officials say any assets tied to the company or Liu in the U.S. are now frozen, and anyone in the U.S, whether a person or business, is barred from working with them. What this really shows is that the U.S. isn’t just coming after the…

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Filed under: News - @ May 30, 2025 4:25 pm