The Trump DOJ and FBI just seized 13 fake consulting websites that Chinese intelligence operatives were using to lure Americans with security clearances into handing over classified information. The operation, announced on June 10, 2026, targeted a spy ring that had been running since November 2023 — meaning this garbage was humming along through the entire final year of the Biden administration while nobody lifted a finger.
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Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg didn't mince words about what Beijing was up to. "These domain seizures offer a glimpse at how foreign actors can use promises of easy money to lure Americans into revealing sensitive or classified information that they are duty-bound to protect," Eisenberg said. He warned that "anyone approached online with offers of easy income for vague 'consulting' work should treat those overtures with extreme caution."
The scheme was sophisticated and brazen. Chinese agents created 13 professional-looking websites with names like centrikglobalconsulting.com, catalystglobalsolutions.com, and rightinfoconsult.com — sites designed to look like legitimate consulting firms. They posted fake job listings on real platforms including Upwork, Expertia AI, Hubstaff Talent, and Wellfound, dangling titles like "Senior Analyst" and "International Affairs Consultant" in front of current and former U.S. government and military employees who held security clearances.
The targets weren't random. Beijing wanted people with access to classified and sensitive U.S. government information. Period.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Ferris Pirro put it bluntly: "These sham consulting sites were crafted to deceive." The operatives used aliases, stolen identities of real people, and AI-generated photographs to build their fake personas. They communicated through Telegram and encrypted applications, paid recruits with cryptocurrency to hide the money trail, and pressured their targets to produce reports containing "exclusive" or "insider" information.
Let that sink in. China was literally paying Americans in crypto to betray their country, and they were using artificial intelligence to make the whole operation look legit.
FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence and Espionage Roman Rozhavsky confirmed that "China's intelligence services resort to using AI, professional networking sites, and online payment platforms" to run these operations. And FBI Washington Field Office Special Agent in Charge Daniel Wierzbicki summed it up perfectly: "Today, we shut them down."
All 13 domains are now in federal hands. The full list reads like a who's who of fake corporate America: centrikglobalconsulting.com, rightinfoconsult.com, finnaclevesperconsulting.com, cydfconsulting.com, pulsewaveglobal.com, catalystglobalsolutions.com, thehorizzen.com, geoindopacific.com, gpf-ina.org, safesec-group.com, thetruthinfo.com, Vandercons.com, and gulfpeace.org.
Here's what makes this story even more infuriating. This conspiracy started in November 2023. Joe Biden was president. His DOJ knew — or should have known — that Chinese intelligence was building an entire fake corporate infrastructure on American soil to recruit our own people as spies. And what did they do about it? Nothing we can see.
It took the Trump DOJ walking through the door to actually pull the trigger.
As reported by 100 Percent Fed Up, this is part of a broader crackdown on Chinese espionage under the Trump administration. While the Biden years gave us balloon-gate and stern finger-wagging, Trump's team is seizing servers, dismantling networks, and sending a clear message to Beijing: we're not playing anymore.
The FBI's Norfolk Field Office, led by Special Agent in Charge Dominique Evans, also assisted in the investigation, along with DOJ Trial Attorney Maria Fedor and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jolie F. Zimmerman out of the District of Columbia.
China spent years building this spy apparatus. Trump's DOJ took it apart in a day. That's what happens when you have an administration that treats Chinese espionage like a national security threat instead of a diplomatic inconvenience.
