A coordinated international operation targeting West African scam networks resulted in 28 arrests, the removal of more than 3.7 million fraudulent social-media accounts, cryptocurrency seizures and the identification of more than $11 million in potentially freezable funds. The Department of Justice said Joint Disruption Week, hosted by the UK's National Crime Agency in London, brought together law-enforcement agencies and technology companies to disrupt scam centers in Nigeria, Ghana and other African countries. Ghanaian authorities arrested 19 people in Sasaabi, an Accra suburb, seized 303 electronic devices and identified 117 trafficking victims awaiting repatriation to Nigeria. Authorities also identified 89 scam victims with estimated losses of about $8.3 million. Nigerian authorities arrested nine people and seized 53 electronic devices. The operation targeted law-enforcement impersonation, digital-arrest extortion and cryptocurrency investment fraud, also known as pig butchering, among other schemes. Private-sector participants, including Meta, Binance, Coinbase, Chainalysis, Elliptic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Starlink and TRM Labs, shared leads on more than 30 suspected scam centers and acted on their own platforms. The enforcement action adds to previously reported figures from the FBI's Operation Blackout, which cited approximately $17 billion in scam-related asset seizures, hundreds of arrests, thousands of trafficking rescues and warnings to more than 10,000 Americans. Those broader figures are not directly comparable with the Joint Disruption Week results. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that cryptocurrency investment fraud represented 72% of investment scams reported in 2025, with reported losses from investment scams involving cryptocurrency rising 24% to more than $7.2 billion.