The US DOJ seized a ton of crypto stolen by pig butchering with the cooperation of Tether

The US DOJ seized a ton of crypto stolen by pig butchering with the cooperation of Tether https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/doj-crypto-scams.html

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Heard they were going to put it all into $piggy

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Apparently they can freeze assets and have done it before

Really unclear to me how the seizure occurred but Tether was thanked for their cooperation

wait tether can arbitrarily move money out of people's wallets?

Thank you for your special news. Strange things are happening in US these days.

The fact that this involved hundreds of wallets and fake KYC info shows how advanced these scam networks have become. Good to see law enforcement finally catching up.

It's hard to be cypherpunk when average users regularly give $225m to scammers. I hope the money goes back to the people who got scammed.