US Treasury and FBI sanction Funnull Technology Inc. for pig‑butchering scam infrastructure

Summary

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Philippine‑based Funnull Technology Inc. and its administrator Liu Lizhi for providing servers and domain services used in large‑scale pig‑butchering cryptocurrency investment scams. The FBI issued an alert linking Funnull to more than 332,000 fraudulent domains that have caused over $200 million in losses for U.S. victims. The sanctions block all U.S. property of Funnull and prohibit American firms from doing business with it, while urging ISPs, DNS providers, web‑browser makers and safe‑browsing services to flag or block traffic to the identified domains. The action represents a coordinated effort to disrupt the technical infrastructure underpinning romance‑baiting fraud operations.