163 bitcoin addresses a 2020 DOJ forfeiture complaint ties to the al-Qassam Brigades (HAMAS) bitcoin fundraising campaign
- Scam type: TF Financing
- Chain: Bitcoin
- Project or site name: al-Qassam Brigades (HAMAS) bitcoin fundraising campaign
- Incident date: 2020-08-13
- Reported: 2026-10-29
- Last updated: 2026-10-29
HAMAS is a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. A Justice Department civil forfeiture complaint filed August 13, 2020 says the al-Qassam Brigades, HAMAS's military wing, ran online fundraising through social media and its websites, including a bitcoin campaign that began in early 2019. The complaint says the campaign moved through three stages: donations to a single address hosted at a U.S.-based bitcoin exchange (Defendant Property 1), then a single address inside al-Qassam Brigades-controlled infrastructure (Defendant Property 4), and finally technology that generated a new…