{"id":581034,"date":"2026-04-09T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/uk-led-operation-atlantic-freezes-12m-in-crypto-scam-proceeds\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:53:49","slug":"uk-led-operation-atlantic-freezes-12m-in-crypto-scam-proceeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/uk-led-operation-atlantic-freezes-12m-in-crypto-scam-proceeds\/","title":{"rendered":"UK-led Operation Atlantic freezes $12M in crypto scam proceeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UK-led<\/p>\n

Operation Atlantic, a joint US, UK and Canadian operation, froze more than $12 million tied to crypto approval phishing and identified over 20,000 victims.<\/p>\n

Authorities in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada have frozen millions of dollars tied to crypto scams in a joint enforcement operation called Operation Atlantic.<\/p>\n

The operation, focused on phishing attacks<\/a>, took place in March and was coordinated by the UK\u2019s National Crime Agency (NCA), the US Secret Service, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Ontario Securities Commission.<\/p>\n

Operation Atlantic identified more than 20,000 victims across the US, Canada and the UK, securing and freezing more than $12 million in suspected criminal proceeds, the NCA said<\/a> Thursday. It also identified \u201cmore than $45 million stolen in cryptocurrency fraud schemes,\u201d the agency added.<\/p>\n

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Operation Atlantic, a joint US, UK and Canadian operation, froze more than $12 million tied to crypto approval phishing and identified over 20,000 victims. Authorities in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada have frozen millions of dollars tied to crypto scams in a joint enforcement operation called Operation Atlantic. The operation, focused on phishing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":581035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-581034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581034","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=581034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}