The Department of Justice is going after the leader of one of the groups sending scam emails and text messages.

Investigators accused Chen "Vicent" Zhi of leading a sophisticated crime network based in Cambodia.

They say he runs a company called The Prince Group that's operating 10 scam compounds, which is a building where people inside are often held against their will and forced to contact potential victims to try and scam them out of money.

Federal officials have already seized $15B in Bitcoin from Zhi.

Former Santa Clara County Prosecutor Erin West went to Cambodia to investigate these scammers, spoke with people connected to the "Scamming Compounds" and also started a nonprofit called Operation Shamrock, working to shed light on this type of organized crime.

West spoke with NBC B

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