• UK steps up action to protect British nationals from online fraud and prevent human rights abuses through new sanctions tackling “scam centres” in Southeast Asia. 
• Targets include a major cryptocurrency-based marketplace on which would-be scam victims’ data is sold. 
• Follows action last year, which triggered a wave of asset freezes and seizures around the world, and the closure of hundreds of scam centres. 
• Comes ahead of the UK’s Illicit Finance Summit in June, which will drive international action to tackle dirty money.  

A cryptocurrency network through which stolen personal data can be sold to fraudsters is sanctioned today as part of efforts to dismantle a network of ‘scam…