{"id":29420,"date":"2025-05-30T10:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29420"},"modified":"2025-05-30T10:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:46:51","slug":"u-s-sanctions-funnull-for-role-in-pig-butchering-scam-huione-linked-crypto-wallets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29420","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Sanctions Funnull for Role in Pig Butchering Scam, Huione-Linked Crypto Wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on Funnull Technology, a provider of technology for websites allegedly involved in so-called pig butchering scams, and two cryptocurrency wallets said to be linked to Huione Group.<\/p>\n<p>Philippines-based Funnull also directly facilitated a scam involving virtual currencies resulting in over $200 million in victim losses, OFAC said in a Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sb0149\">press release<\/a>. In addition, the company is alleged to have acquired several IP addresses from mainstream cloud service providers to sell to cybercriminals. The sanctions also cover a Funnull administrator, Liu Lizhi.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of cryptocurrency investment scam websites reported to the FBI are linked to Funnull,&#8221; Blockchain security firm Elliptic said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elliptic.co\/blog\/ofac-sanctions-cloud-infrastructure-provider-linked-to-pig-butchering-scams\">blog post<\/a>, which also identified the <a href=\"https:\/\/sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov\/Details.aspx?id=53953\">sanctioned wallets<\/a> as being linked to Huione.<\/p>\n<p>The wallets on Ethereum and Tron received funds directly from Huione Pay, part of Huione Group, Elliptic said. Huione was labeled as a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fincen.gov\/news\/news-releases\/fincen-finds-cambodia-based-huione-group-be-primary-money-laundering-concern\">primary money laundering concern<\/a>&#8221; by FinCEN earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The two addresses received more than $4 million in total, according to Elliptic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on Funnull Technology, a provider of technology for websites allegedly involved in so-called pig butchering scams, and two cryptocurrency wallets said to be linked to Huione Group. Philippines-based Funnull also directly facilitated a scam involving virtual currencies resulting in over $200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-29420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}