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Trump Says $938.5M in Scam-Linked Crypto Frozen by DOJ Strike Force

President Trump said at a White House cybercrime roundtable that $1.6 billion in losses had been prevented, while the Justice Department’s strike force reported $938.5 million in cryptocurrency restrained as of Oct. 15. The figures cover scam-linked crypto assets frozen as the DOJ expands its enforcement effort nationwide.

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The gap between the White House's $1.6 billion "prevented" figure and the DOJ's $938.5 million actually restrained is the detail worth noting: prevention claims and asset seizures are different measures, and only the latter is a concrete enforcement outcome. The real signal is institutional — a dedicated DOJ strike force treating crypto restraint as a standing metric suggests scam enforcement is becoming routinized rather than episodic. What remains open is whether restrained assets translate into restitution for victims, and whether the reported totals reflect a durable trend or a single enforcement push.

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