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FBI Operation Level Up — Crypto Fraud Victim Alert Program

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Summary

Operation Level Up is a joint FBI/U.S. Secret Service initiative, launched in January 2024, that proactively identifies and directly contacts victims of ongoing cryptocurrency investment fraud (commonly called "pig butchering") before they lose additional funds. As of an April 2026 U.S. Attorney's Office update, the program had alerted nearly 9,000 individuals and was credited with preventing an estimated $562 million in further losses. It is a legitimate U.S. government law-enforcement victim-protection program, not a risk entity, and is documented here as a reference resource for victims and researchers.

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1 entity · 11 linked investigations
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□FBI Operation Level Up — Crypto Fraud Victim Alert Program
Also appears in
DOJ Pig Butchering Civil Forfeiture — DC District July 2026·2DOJ Scam Center Disruption Week (June 2026)·84Sanduo Group / Giant Company·0DOJ $25M Pig Butchering Seizure (July 2026)·5Shunda Scam Compound·0DOJ $225M Pig Butchering Civil Forfeiture — U.S. v. Approx. $225,364,961 in USDT·2Ko Thet Company / Sanduo Group / Giant Company Pig-Butchering Network·0Pig Butchering Scam Network (Operation Atlantic / 2026 Global Crackdown)·0DOJ Global Pig Butchering Takedown — Ko Thet / Sanduo / Giant Company·0DOJ $225M Crypto Confidence Scam Seizure June 2026·5

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Distinct actors this investigation shares with others — holders, traders, and named parties. Shared infrastructure (exchanges, pools) is excluded.

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Timeline(4 events)

January 2024

FBI, with support from the U.S. Secret Service, launches Operation Level Up to proactively identify and contact victims of ongoing cryptocurrency investment fraud ('pig butchering').

FinanceFeeds / Daily Hodl / multiple corroborating reports citing FBI

14 February 2025

FBI reports Operation Level Up has helped over 4,300 victims and prevented an estimated $285 million in losses.

The Daily Hodl

25 March 2026

Updated reporting puts Operation Level Up's cumulative total at 8,103 victims notified and approximately $511.5 million in prevented losses, with 77% of contacted victims reportedly unaware they were being scammed.

FinanceFeeds

29 April 2026

FBI, Dubai Police, and China's Ministry of Public Security jointly announce an international takedown of pig-butchering scam networks: 276 arrests, nine scam centers dismantled, and over $701 million in cryptocurrency frozen. Coverage of the action cites Operation Level Up's cumulative figures — nearly 9,000 victims alerted and an estimated $562 million in losses prevented — as related context.

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  • #1publishRecorded on Solana ✓9/11/2026, 12:29:07 PM
    slot 446157308 · hash BrWY9h2wgY7aY5Xq466gqyuT8WXqwoJnbMqpHhwQ6j7k

This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 decision). 10 of 11 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

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generated: 9/11/2026, 12:27:52 PM

last updated: 9/11/2026, 12:27:52 PM

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