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Trump Hosts a Roundtable on Cybercrime and Scam Centers, Oct. 21, 2026

October 21, 2026 · The White House · 0:30:06

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What happened

President Donald Trump convened a roundtable on cybercrime and cyber fraud at the White House on October 21, 2026 — the completed form of the roundtable upload the White House channel carried live earlier that day. “The effort to stop cyber crime and cyber fraud has been ongoing for many years, but I think we are closer to it than anyone has ever been,” the President said. He put the scale of the menace as he stated it: three quarters of American adults have been subjected to internet scams or cyber attacks, and “Americans reported losing more than $20 billion to cyber crimes — and this is just what’s reported.”

The enforcement figures the President cited: federal law enforcement has warned over 10,000 American targets of victimization and prevented at least $1.6 billion in losses this year; frozen $1 billion in cryptocurrency held by foreign scammers; shut down fraudulent websites; and coordinated with technology companies to disrupt millions of online accounts used by foreign criminals. He described a victims restoration program to recover stolen money where possible, an August national security memorandum releasing private-sector companies to take offensive and defensive actions against scam centers, and the administration’s campaign against the sexual-extortion rackets he said have wrecked young lives — crediting the First Lady’s bipartisan effort behind the Take It Down Act.

Attorney General Todd Blanche described the machinery built under the President’s executive actions: a single plan across the Justice Department, Homeland Security, Treasury, State, and the Department of War to dismantle the organizations behind scam centers; a new scam center cell and national coordination center; and a Justice Department “scam initiative,” led by the Criminal Division, deploying dozens of prosecutors across all 94 U.S. Attorney’s offices. Among the results he cited: 276 individuals arrested in Dubai and nine scam centers that targeted Americans dismantled, and — in a separate operation the month before — a criminal marketplace seized and $52 million restrained on the day Treasury sanctioned it. Around the table, as the President introduced them: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, FBI Director Kash Patel, Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross.

Why it matters

This roundtable is the public convening of the administration’s anti-scam-center campaign — the cyber-fraud counterpart to the task force’s domestic benefits-fraud work — with its own dated instruments (the August national security memorandum, the Justice Department scam initiative) and its own stated scoreboard: losses reported, losses prevented, assets frozen, and centers dismantled. It is recorded on the Fraud, Waste & Corruption hub alongside that record.

Scoreboard watch

This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: the figures as stated at the roundtable — more than $20 billion in reported cybercrime losses; at least $1.6 billion in losses prevented and $1 billion in cryptocurrency frozen this year; 276 arrests in Dubai and nine scam centers dismantled — checkable against Justice Department, FBI IC3, and Treasury releases as they publish.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Participates in a Roundtable, Oct. 21, 2026,” The White House, October 21, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by President Trump and Attorney General Blanche at the roundtable.