119th Congress · introduced in the House · Sep 18, 2025
Dismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act
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Latest action (Dec 3, 2025): Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 48 - 0.
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Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in House (Sep 18, 2025)
Dismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act
This bill requires the President to (1) impose applicable sanctions on foreign persons (individuals or entities) responsible for online financial scams against U.S. nationals, and (2) establish an interagency task force to shut down the criminal syndicates perpetuating such scams.
Under the bill, the President must determine whether 43 specified foreign persons, and any other foreign persons the President determines are responsible for or complicit in online financial scams against U.S. nationals, are subject to sanctions under specified laws and Executive Order 13581. Upon such determination, the President must impose applicable sanctions (for example, blocking the sanctioned person's property transactions within the United States).
The President must also establish an interagency task force to shut down transnational criminal syndicates that use large scam centers and forced labor of trafficked persons to perpetuate mass online scams against Americans. The task force must (1) submit a comprehensive strategy to Congress to combat these scam centers and dismantle the criminal elements involved with them, and (2) coordinate and oversee implementation of the strategy. Within 360 days of submitting the strategy to Congress and annually thereafter for five years the task force must submit to Congress a report addressing various topics related to such scam centers including a list of all foreign persons sanctioned by the United States for their scam center involvement.
The Department of State is authorized to provide trauma-informed care, shelter, reintegration, and support services for victims of trafficking in persons within online scam centers.
Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
No recorded roll calls on this bill in coverage.
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 48 - 0.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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FDD ACTION · lobbying firm or registrant: FDD ACTION
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 20, 2026 · issue area: Banking
$240,000
Spent on own lobbying
…ions. H.R. 4530, STOP Shells Act, all provisions. H.R. 4920, BIS IT Modernization Act, all provisions. H.R. 4930, Counterfeit Notification Act, all provisions. H.R. 5490, Dismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act, all provisions. H.R. 5853, ECRA Penalty Increase Act, all provisions. H.R. 6058, Semiconductor Technology Resilience, I…
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AARP · lobbying firm or registrant: AARP
2026 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026) · posted Apr 20, 2026 · issue area: Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
$3,830,000
Spent on own lobbying
S. 2117/H.R. 1734, Preventing Deep Fake Scams Act. H.R. 2978, the Guarding Unprotected Aging Retirees from Deception (GUARD) Act. H.R. 3774, the SCAM Act. H.R. 5490, Dismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act. H.R. 5967, Strategic Task Force on Scam Prevention Act. H.R. 6425, National Strategy for Combating Scams Act. H.R. 6426…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AARP · lobbying firm or registrant: AARP
2025 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2025 – Sep 30, 2025) · posted Oct 17, 2025 · issue area: Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
$3,810,000
Spent on own lobbying
…Scams Actof 2025. S. 2019/H.R. 4936, the Taskforce for Recognizing and Averting Payment Scams (TRAPS) Act of 2025. H.R. 1469, the Senior Security Act of 2025. H.R. 5490, the Dismantling Foreign Scam Syndicates Act of 2025. No bill number. Discussed the Accredited Investor Definition. No bill number. Discussed investor protecti…
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