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U.S. authorities charged Trung Nguyen Van with money laundering for his alleged role in a “pig butchering” cryptocurrency investment fraud scheme, after tracing $16 million in transfers to his wallet. Case documents link his wallet to flows exceeding $53 million from fraud schemes targeting U.S. citizens.
Google announced the expansion of its Scam Detection feature for scam calls to the Samsung Galaxy S26 series in the United States, along with enhanced detection of scam messages through an on-device Gemini model. The updates include support for more than 20 countries and several languages, while keeping call processing on the device and leaving the feature disabled by default.