S 2950 United States Senate · 119th Congress

Scam Compound Accountability and Mobilization Act

The Scam Compound Accountability and Mobilization Act establishes a strategy to combat cyber-enabled fraud operations run by transnational criminal organizations from "scam compounds" that use human trafficking victims for forced criminality. The bill requires the State Department to create a global strategy within 180 days of enactment, identify enabling countries (those permitting scam operations) and impacted countries, and coordinate international efforts to prevent recruitment fraud and support trafficking survivors. It authorizes sanctions against foreign individuals or entities that support scam operations, including financial sanctions, visa restrictions, and asset seizures. The strategy will be implemented through an interagency task force that will monitor progress, update the strategy as needed, and report annually to Congress. The bill expires seven years after enactment.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2025
Committee Review
Oct 2025
Senate Passage
Dec 2025
House Passage
President
Introduced Sep 30, 2025 Last action Dec 9, 2025
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Introduced in Senate Engrossed in Senate · 3 edits · Dec 8, 2025
MINOR
The Engrossed version adds a new section 7 requiring the Attorney General to submit a report within 90 days of enactment assessing how existing forfeiture law could be amended to allow financial redress for U.S. citizen victims of international scam compound operations. The old sunset provision is renumbered from section 7 to section 8. All other changes are minor formatting fixes (spacing, hyphenation of 'money-laundering,' and capitalization).
REQUIREMENT

New section 7 requires the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, and other appropriate agency heads, to submit a report to Congress within 90 days of enactment. The report must outline challenges to providing financial redress to victims of scam compound operations, recommend amendments to existing forfeiture law so the DOJ can use forfeited assets to compensate U.S. citizen victims, and recommend how such a redress mechanism should be administered.

TECHNICAL

The sunset provision was renumbered from section 7 to section 8 to accommodate the new victim redress section.

Minor formatting changes throughout: removal of extra spaces before U.S.C. citations, hyphenation of 'money laundering' to 'money-laundering' in sanctions provisions, and a capitalization change from 'Federal Government' to 'Federal government' in the strategy section.

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This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
10
Key actions
4
Committee
3
Dec 8, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8533-8535; text: CR S8533--8535)
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Dec 8, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
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Oct 30, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
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Oct 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
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Sep 30, 2025
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
upper
Sep 30, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 8 co-sponsors

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