DOJ Seizes Domain of Burma’s Notorious Tai Chang Scam Compound to Disrupt ‘Pig Butchering’ Fraud
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The U.S. Department of Justice has executed a significant digital takedown, seizing a web domain central to a massive cryptocurrency investment fraud (CIF) operation based in Southeast Asia. The action targets the infrastructure of the “Tai Chang” scam compound, a notorious hub for cyber-enabled fraud located in the village of Kyaukhat, Burma.
The seized domain, tickmilleas.com, was identified as a primary tool used by scammers operating out of the Tai Chang compound, also known as Casino Kosai. This specific location has deep ties to transnational organized crime.
According to court documents, the compound is affiliated with the “Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) and the Trans Asia International Holding Group Thailand Company Limited,” entities recently designated by the Treasury Department for their “links to Chinese organized crime and development of scam centers in Southeast Asia.”
This operation marks a rapid escalation in U.S. law enforcement efforts. The seizure comes “less than three weeks after the Justice Department announced the launch of the District of Columbia U.S. Attorney’s Office’s (D.C. USAO) ‘Scam Center Strike Force’,” a specialized unit dedicated to dismantling these specific types of fraud networks.
The fraudulent site was engineered to look like a professional financial platform. Its purpose was to “trick victims into unknowingly depositing their funds” by mimicking legitimate trading environments.
Victims who reported the scam to the FBI described a sophisticated illusion. The site “showed lucrative returns on what they believed to be their investments and displayed purported deposits made by scammers to the victims’ ‘accounts’.” These falsified metrics were used to groom victims, convincing them to pour more money into the scheme before the trap snapped shut.
Despite being registered only recently in early November 2025, the site’s impact was immediate. The FBI noted that they had “already identified multiple victims who used the domain in the last month and were scammed out of their investments.”
The Justice Department’s strategy extends beyond just seizing the website. The investigation revealed that the domain directed users to download mobile applications from official marketplaces. Acting on this intelligence, the FBI “notified Google and Apple of the fraudulent apps, and several of the applications have been voluntarily removed.”
Furthermore, the crackdown has impacted the social engineering infrastructure used to recruit victims. Based on FBI intelligence regarding the Tai Chang compound, “Meta identified and voluntarily removed more than 2,000 accounts from their network of social media platforms.”
This seizure highlights the immense scale of the “pig butchering” phenomenon—scams where fraudsters build long-term trust with victims before stealing their assets. In 2024 alone, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received “more than 41,000 complaints reporting roughly $5.8 billion in losses from CIF scams.”
Visitors attempting to access tickmilleas.com will now see a splash page warning that the site “has been seized by law enforcement,” a move designed to disrupt the ongoing “CIF scam activity and related money laundering.”
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