Executive Order on Combating Scam Centers and Cybercrime
The White House
This Executive Order establishes a comprehensive federal framework to detect, disrupt, and dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations engaged in cybercrime, financial fraud, and predatory extortion schemes targeting United States citizens.
It directs a coordinated response across multiple executive departments to harden domestic financial and digital infrastructure while leveraging law enforcement, diplomatic, and offensive capabilities against foreign actors and state sponsors of cyber-enabled crime.
The order mandates that the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Homeland Security, alongside the Attorney General and other key officials, review existing operational and regulatory frameworks within 60 days.
Following this review, these agencies have an additional 60 days to submit an action plan to the President detailing strategies to neutralize responsible criminal networks.
This plan requires the creation of a specialized operational cell within the National Coordination Center, designed to synchronize federal efforts and integrate threat intelligence from commercial cybersecurity firms and non-federal entities to enhance the attribution and disruption of malicious actors.
Federal law enforcement is instructed to aggressively pursue these networks. The Attorney General is directed to prioritize the prosecution of individuals involved in cyber-enabled fraud, including sextortion and scam centers, pursuing the most severe provable offenses under federal guidelines.
Concurrently, the Department of Homeland Security, acting through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is tasked with partnering with the National Coordination Center to provide technical assistance, threat intelligence, and resilience training to State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments, ensuring domestic critical infrastructure is hardened against exploitation.
To address domestic financial losses, the Attorney General must submit a recommendation within 90 days for the establishment of a Victims Restoration Program. This initiative aims to remit recovered, seized, or forfeited illicit funds back to the targets of these fraudulent schemes.
On the diplomatic front, the Secretary of State is instructed to demand enforcement cooperation from foreign governments hosting these criminal organizations.
The order authorizes the imposition of severe consequences for nations tolerating predatory cyber activity within their borders.
Authorized penalties include targeted sanctions, trade penalties, visa restrictions, limits on foreign assistance, and the immediate expulsion of complicit foreign officials and diplomats from the United States.
