SCAM Act

This bill would require the Secretary of Defense, acting through U.S. Cyber Command, to set up a joint task force to investigate and disrupt foreign-run online scam networks that target people in the United States. The task force would include officials from the State, Defense, Treasury, and Justice Departments, intelligence agencies, the FTC, FCC, FBI, state and local governments, and nonprofit groups. It would give priority to scam operations tied to the Chinese Communist Party in the Indo-Pacific region. Within one year, it would report to Congress on scam trends, policy options such as sanctions and asset forfeiture, and ways to share scam warnings at public facilities like post offices. The task force's authority would end five years after it submits that report.

Full text and official record on Congress.gov

Sponsors

• Eugene Simon Vindman Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors