US Sanctions Romance Bait Scam Digital Infrastructure Host

Funnull Technology Is Content Delivery Network for Criminals, Says US Treasury Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • May 30, 2025

The U.S. government sanctioned a Philippine firm it said is linked to a majority of known romance bait scam websites, sites powered by trafficked workers who deceive victims into funneling money into fake investments.

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The Department of the Treasury sanctioned Thursday Funnull Technology and Liu Lizhi, a Chinese national who officials said works as an administrator at the company. Treasury cut off the company from the U.S.-dominated international monetary system for acting as a content delivery network for scam platforms. Treasury said Funnull bought IP addresses in bulk from major cloud services companies and sold web design templates and algorithmically-generated domain names to scammers.

Domain generation algorithms allow organizations like Funnull to quickly generate large numbers of ...