IFW Global - Investigations, Intelligence, Recovery

18/09/2026

HISTORIC JAIL TERM AFTER $50 MILLION SCAM BUST 👊

IFW Global wishes to congratulate the Australian Federal Police on a great job investigating and busting a complex scam operation that ultimately led to a historic jail term for one of the key players.

We are proud to have played some role in helping to bring clarity to the jury on how these scammers operate, which contributed to the conviction and major sentence. Ken Gamble

This result should be viewed as a watershed moment. Read our review of the result. 👇

11/09/2026

FROM CRIME CELL TO JAIL CELL: HACKER CASE ARRESTS
It’s Friday, so let’s finish the week with some positive news about the Australian Federal Police working with the FBI and Western Australian Police to cuff two misguided Australian lads who are accused of masterminding a hackers’ playground.
Police allege they created infected software that made its way into computer systems across government, academic and private-sector institutions, potentially compromising more than 1,000 organisations globally. 👇

04/09/2026

INSULTS AREN'T THE ANSWER

IFW Global Chairman Ken Gamble has spent years forging partnerships with key authorities across south-east Asia to help combat the scourge of criminal syndicates.

We’d like to think the media’s role is to help the public understand these issues, not obscure them. Last Sunday night on the Seven Network, a sensationalist Australian feature report called Cambodia “Scambodia”. The scam compounds got the headline, but the people fighting them got erased.

Ken makes a clear and valuable point in the article below. Labelling an entire nation as criminal doesn’t expose the syndicates. It insults the honest officers and reformers taking real risks to dismantle them and it makes the international cooperation this fight depends on much harder to build.

Scam networks move money across borders in seconds while intelligence sits siloed in a dozen jurisdictions. No country solves that alone. As Ken puts it, if we really want to defeat these criminal syndicates, we need more partnerships and fewer stereotypes.
ARTICLE 👇
https://ifwglobal.com/partnerships-work-better-than-media-punchlines/

Read the full article and watch Ken's walkthrough inside the compound on the IFW Global YouTube channel.

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To understand the sheer scale of the global scam industry, IFW’s Ke...

31/08/2026

To understand the sheer scale of the global scam industry, IFW’s Ken Gamble visited a compound in Cambodia that had been set up by a Chinese criminal syndicate.
What Ken saw was confronting, but what gave him hope were the efforts being made by Cambodian authorities to combat the problem.
Here is his personal account of the visit to the world’s biggest scam compound, where the Chinese syndicate used a casino licence as cover.

To understand the sheer scale of the global scam industry, IFW’s Ke...

31/08/2026

GANGLAND AND THE GIFT CARD GRIFT
An ABC Australia investigation by reporter Emilia Terzon has exposed a racket targeting Apple gift cards being sold off the shelves of Australia’s biggest supermarkets across the country’s major capital cities.
IFW Global’s Ken Gamble features in the report, and his observation speaks to the scale of the operation. Authorities say the concentration of complaints in the major capital cities is not what random opportunism looks like. It is the signature of an organised crime operation, and overseas investigators have linked gift card draining to money laundering into China and to human trafficking.
Check out the article.

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30/08/2026

CORONER PRAISES IFW GLOBAL 🇧🇪

A coroner has handed down her findings into the death of Belgian tourist Celine Cremer, who went missing while bushwalking near Wynyard in Tasmania's northwest in June 2023. Coroner Madeleine Wilson ruled Ms Cremer died by accident after becoming lost, following what she described as a "confluence of errors" and confirmed no other person was involved in her death.

The coroner directly acknowledged the private search effort led by IFW Global's Ken Gamble and his team, engaged by Ms Cremer's family after Tasmania Police stood down their search.

The coroner praised the search as well planned and properly resourced, and recommended police formalise how private search groups are used in future missing person cases. It's a significant moment for the volunteers involved and for the broader conversation about the role private investigators can play alongside law enforcement. 🇧🇪

A coroner recommends Tasmania Police look into formalising the use of private search groups in missing person investigations as she releases her findings into Celine Cremer's death.

20/08/2026

Knowledge is power.
Losing money to a scam is devastating. But for many victims the ordeal isn't over, it's just entering round two.
Recovery scams target people who've already been defrauded, with fraudsters posing as investigators, lawyers or officials who promise to get the stolen funds back. The real goal is to extract even more money or personal information from someone who's already been hurt.


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11/08/2026

Conversations about asset recovery are hardest when someone has just been hit by a financial crime. The money is gone, the shame is fresh and the internet is full of people promising to get it all back within days. After years of representing victims, here is IFW Global's honest assessment: recovery is possible, but it is slow, evidence-driven and it depends almost entirely on how fast the trail is followed. We say victims deserve straight answers, not false hope.

Asset recovery is complex and never guaranteed. IFW Global combines financial intelligence, legal strategy and global investigations to trace stolen funds.

05/08/2026

Manipulation is at the heart of a cybercriminal’s success and no one is immune. People of all ages, in every part of the world, can be targeted.

At IFW Global, our case file example reveals a disturbing truth: criminals will manipulate any mind they can if it gets them closer to your money. That’s why every resource matters in the fight against cybercrime. Our team is proud to play a broad role in tracking down offenders, supporting victims and helping expose the tactics used to exploit trust.

29/07/2026

A hard lesson for us all. Swindling comes in many forms. Sometimes criminals hide behind the veil of a digital screen, while others use sophisticated websites to lure you in before finishing the con face to face.IFW's Ken Gamble speaks of one such case he investigated with Australia's ABC. Knowledge is the best defence.

Everyday Australians who invested their retirement savings and inheritances with a wealth management company fear they have lost everything after the company's licence was cancelled for selling bank bonds that didn’t exist.