Dismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act
Sponsored By: Representative Shreve
Introduced
Summary
Creates an interagency Task Force to dismantle transnational online scam centers that use forced labor and trafficking, and to coordinate sanctions, asset recovery, and victim support across U.S. agencies and allies. This bill would push a whole-of-government strategy to stop mass online fraud rings in Southeast Asia and hold enablers accountable.
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- Families and consumers: Requires annual unclassified reports to Congress with estimates of money stolen from U.S. nationals, seizures, and trends to improve public awareness and oversight.
- Law enforcement and agencies: Sets a Task Force chaired by the Secretary of State with DOJ, DHS, Treasury, FBI, and others, requires full data sharing, and demands a comprehensive strategy within 180 days with measurable indicators like sanctions and indictments.
- Victims and diplomacy: Authorizes State Department programs for trauma informed care, shelter, and reintegration and presses foreign governments while authorizing targeted sanctions under Global Magnitsky and trafficking laws.
*Authorizes $30.0 million for FY2026 and $30.0 million for FY2027 to the State Department to implement the strategy, adding $60.0 million in authorized federal spending across those years.*
Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Help for trafficking victims from scam centers
The bill would authorize $30 million in 2026 and $30 million in 2027 for victim services through the State Department. If you are a trafficking victim from an online scam center, you could get shelter, trauma care, and help returning home and rebuilding your life. Programs would be designed to avoid revictimization and to collect evidence to help prosecute scammers.
National task force to stop online scams
If enacted, the government would set up a cross‑agency task force within 30 days. Within 180 days, it would deliver a national plan to shut down online scam centers and support trafficking victims. It would work with police, banks, social media, telecom, dating apps, crypto exchanges, and allies to disrupt scams and recover stolen money. Agencies would have to share data, and the task force would report to Congress about a year after the plan and then yearly for five years. The task force would end seven years after enactment.
Sanctions on foreign online scam leaders
This bill would direct the President to use sanctions laws against named foreign people and others who run online scams targeting Americans. Within 180 days, the President would have to decide who meets the criteria and impose sanctions. People forced into scams as trafficking victims would not be sanctioned. The President could waive sanctions for national security, but must tell Congress and wait 15 days.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Shreve
IN • R
Cosponsors
Moolenaar
MI • R
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Rulli
OH • R
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Huizenga
MI • R
Sponsored 10/28/2025
Suozzi
NY • D
Sponsored 11/4/2025
Yakym
IN • R
Sponsored 11/17/2025
McDowell
NC • R
Sponsored 11/18/2025
Del. Moylan, James C. [R-GU-At Large]
GU • R
Sponsored 11/20/2025
Gottheimer
NJ • D
Sponsored 11/25/2025
Vindman
VA • D
Sponsored 12/2/2025
Riley (NY)
NY • D
Sponsored 12/2/2025
Lawler
NY • R
Sponsored 12/2/2025
Smith (NJ)
NJ • R
Sponsored 12/3/2025
Sherman
CA • D
Sponsored 12/3/2025
Amo
RI • D
Sponsored 12/3/2025
McBride
DE • D
Sponsored 12/3/2025
Castro (TX)
TX • D
Sponsored 12/3/2025
Kennedy (NY)
NY • D
Sponsored 12/9/2025
Messmer
IN • R
Sponsored 12/10/2025
Whitesides
CA • D
Sponsored 12/10/2025
Davidson
OH • R
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Biggs (SC)
SC • R
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Baumgartner
WA • R
Sponsored 12/12/2025
Gillen
NY • D
Sponsored 12/15/2025
Olszewski
MD • D
Sponsored 12/15/2025
Kean
NJ • R
Sponsored 12/15/2025
Tran
CA • D
Sponsored 12/18/2025
Kim
CA • R
Sponsored 12/18/2025
Kamlager-Dove
CA • D
Sponsored 1/8/2026
Wagner
MO • R
Sponsored 2/20/2026
Downing
MT • R
Sponsored 2/20/2026
Stauber
MN • R
Sponsored 2/20/2026
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