The U.S. Justice Department has taken down a web domain that was part of a major crypto scam operation based in Burma.
According to a Dec. 2 announcement, authorities seized the site tickmilleas.com, which looked like a real trading platform but was actually run out of the Tai Chang compound — also known as Casino Kosai — in Kyaukhat, Burma. This place is known for being linked to organized criminal groups and online scam networks.
Earlier this week, the DOJ also took control of two more domains connected to the same scam center.
For anyone who doesn’t know, “scam compounds” are large buildings run by criminal groups. People are often trafficked or forced to work there, spending long hours running online scams. Southeast Asia has become a hotspot for these operations, especially those tied to crypto fraud.
The DOJ said the Tai Chang compound is linked to two sanctioned groups — the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army and Trans Asia International Holding Group. Both groups have been flagged by the U.S. for their ties to Chinese organized crime and for building scam centers across the region.
The DOJ explained that this takedown is part of an ongoing effort to stop Southeast Asian scam centers from using U.S. internet infrastructure to trick victims.
The seized domain was created to look completely legitimate. It had fake dashboards, fake profits, and fake deposits — all designed to make users believe they were actually earning money. Victims were even pushed to download malicious apps from Google Play and the Apple App Store. Once the FBI alerted the companies, many of these apps were removed.
Information from the FBI also helped Meta take down more than 2,000 related social media accounts used to target new victims.
Even though the domain was only registered in early November 2025, investigators already found multiple victims who used the site and lost their money.
As of now, tickmilleas.com has been fully seized by U.S. authorities.
Crypto Scams in Southeast Asia Are Growing Fast
Countries like Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam have become major centers for online scams, especially “pig butchering” schemes and fake trading platforms. Many of these operations depend on trafficked workers forced to scam people under terrible conditions.
In October, the DOJ seized more than $14 billion in Bitcoin in one of the largest financial crackdowns in history. That action targeted Cambodia’s Prince Group, run by Chinese-Cambodian tycoon Chen Zhi, who was later indicted.
Burma has seen its own surge in crypto scams. A report from Chainalysis last year found that romance scammers in the KK Park compound in Myawaddy stole nearly $100 million in crypto from victims around the world.
