No Business With Genocide: Close Junta Scam Centers in Burma
- No Business With Genocide
- Mar 30
- 4 min read
Tell Congress: help close the junta's scam centers in Burma
In the past few months, we have significantly built the number of sponsors of the Dismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act (H.R.5490). It's a credit to your continual lobbying of your Members of Congress that the bill now has 50 sponsors including a healthy bipartisan mix of both Democrats and Republicans.
Every day, Americans lose billions to online “pig-butchering” scams run by foreign criminal syndicates—and many of these operations are protected and profiting Myanmar’s brutal military junta.
Under junta control, entire scam compounds in Myanmar traffic and enslave tens of thousands of people to defraud victims across the world, including right here in the United States. The stolen money helps fund the junta’s war against its own people and fuels a global criminal industry that preys on ordinary Americans.
H.R. 5490, the Dismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act, would create a U.S. federal task force to take down these networks, sanction the regimes that shelter them, and protect American consumers from devastating losses.
Please follow up your message in these four simple ways.
If you have extra time, you may follow up your message with an email, phone call, and/or meeting with the staff of your Members of Congress. Just follow the steps below!
Follow up #1: send a direct email
Click to find the names, emails, and phone numbers of key staffers to your U.S. representative:
Click here to enter your zip code and find your House Member
Click here to check if your U.S. representative is already a co-sponsor of the Dismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act (H.R. 5490). (If your U.S. representative is already a co-sponsor, thank them. We don't do that enough!)
You may wish to use a succinct and direct subject line such as: "Co-sponsor Dismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act (H.R. 5490)"
Start your message with a mention of where you live in the district of your Member of Congress. Feel free to include a sentence or two on why you care about human rights and the Rohingya in particular. Please use or adapt the following text in your email. Please blind copy (bcc) us on your email at info@nobusinesswithgenocide.org
I ask that you co-sponsor and support the Dismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act (H.R. 5490).H.R. 5490 is a critical step to protect Americans and confront a growing global threat. Foreign scam networks have stolen billions from U.S. citizens, using sophisticated online fraud schemes that devastate families and drain our economy. Many of these criminal operations are based in Myanmar, where the military junta and allied militias are profiting from and protecting massive scam compounds built on forced labor and human trafficking.
By creating a coordinated federal task force and imposing sanctions on governments and groups that enable these crimes, H.R. 5490 would help dismantle these networks at their source. This bill is not just about stopping scams — it’s about defending American consumers, combating international organized crime, and cutting off a brutal dictatorship’s source of funding.
Please write back and tell me if you have co-sponsored theDismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act(H.R. 5490). Thank you.
Follow up #2: make a phone call
Click here to enter your zip code and find your House Member
Click here to check if your U.S. representative is already a co-sponsor of the Dismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act (H.R. 5490). (If your U.S. representative is already a co-sponsor, thank them. We don't do that enough!)
When you reach their office, ask to be connected directly to the staffer, either in person on their voicemail.
Simply tell the staffer - in person or on their voicemail - that you want your U.S. representative to co-sponsor the Dismantle Foreign Scam Syndicates Act (H.R. 5490)
Leave your name, number, and city of residence to indicate that you live in the state.
Email us at info@nobusinesswithgenocide.org and tell us how your calls went.
Follow up #3 meet your Member of Congress in person or by video
We're seeking one or more people in each state and House district. We would work with you to set up a video or in-person meeting with the staff of your House Member or senators. We'd also prepare you beforehand with talking points. The goal is to let you - voters from the district - lobby your Members of Congress effectively.
If you want our help to set up a meeting with the staff of your Members of Congress, contact us at info@nobusinesswithgenocide.org
Just one email or phone call from a constituent can make a difference. So email and call your U.S. senators every day this week until they co-sponsor the Uyghur Policy Act.
With solidarity,
Julie Millsap, Government Relations Manager, No Business With Genocide
For the team at No Business With Genocide: Simon Billenness, Alyson Chadwick, Julie Millsap, and Sasha LaPonsa
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