{"id":560253,"date":"2026-02-24T11:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=794276"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:30:43","slug":"australian-cybercrime-squad-charges-man-in-3-5-million-crypto-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/australian-cybercrime-squad-charges-man-in-3-5-million-crypto-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Cybercrime Squad Charges Man in $3.5 Million Crypto Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/australian-cybercrime-squad-charges-man-in-3-5m-crypto-scam-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Australian detectives have dismantled a major investment scam that defrauded over 190 elderly and vulnerable victims of $3.5 million. The Nexopayment Deception Australian Cybercrime Squad detectives have charged a man following an investigation into a large-scale investment scam that defrauded more than 190 elderly and vulnerable residents of $3.5 million. The Cybercrime Squad established the [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian detectives have dismantled a major investment scam that defrauded over 190 elderly and vulnerable victims of $3.5 million. The Nexopayment Deception Australian Cybercrime Squad detectives have charged a man following an investigation into a large-scale investment scam that defrauded more than 190 elderly and vulnerable residents of $3.5 million. The Cybercrime Squad established the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":560254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-560253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}