WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen issued the following press release:

In case you missed it, at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, highlighted the harmful impacts of online scams in the Granite State and described how overseas scam compounds are spreading rapidly across the globe. The hearing, entitled, "Protecting Americans from Global Scam Operations: Assessing the U.S. Response," focused on transnational criminal organizations behind online scam operations and the bipartisan Scam Compound Accountability and Mobilization (SCAM) Act (https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/release/ranking-member-shaheen-senator-cornyn-introdu...