{"id":628890,"date":"2026-07-14T01:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/thai-scammers-122m-wallet-japan-embraces-crypto-credit-asia-express\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T01:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:52:58","slug":"thai-scammers-122m-wallet-japan-embraces-crypto-credit-asia-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/thai-scammers-122m-wallet-japan-embraces-crypto-credit-asia-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai scammer&#8217;s $122M wallet, Japan embraces crypto credit: Asia Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/asia-express-5.jpg\" alt=\"Thai scammer's $122M wallet, Japan embraces crypto credit: Asia Express\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin backed mortgages and stablecoin yield are hot topics in Japan right now, as Hyundai experiments with Avalanche for global stablecoin transfers. Asia Express<\/p>\n<p>A crypto wallet linked to a suspected romance-scam money launderer <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/interpol-122m-crypto-flows-romance-scam-laundering\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">processed more than $122.5 million in 10 months,<\/a> according to Interpol.<\/p>\n<p>Interpol\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interpol.int\/News-and-Events\/News\/2026\/Over-5-800-arrests-USD-293-million-intercepted-in-global-fraud-bust\">said<\/a> that Thai authorities arrested two suspects and uncovered a money-laundering network that funneled proceeds from romance scams into cryptocurrencies, using cross-chain token swaps to obscure the trail.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was part of Operation First Light 2026, an Interpol-coordinated campaign targeting social engineering scams and the financial infrastructure used to launder their proceeds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/features\/thai-scammer-japan-crypto-loans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin backed mortgages and stablecoin yield are hot topics in Japan right now, as Hyundai experiments with Avalanche for global stablecoin transfers. Asia Express A crypto wallet linked to a suspected romance-scam money launderer processed more than $122.5 million in 10 months, according to Interpol. Interpol\u00a0said that Thai authorities arrested two suspects and uncovered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":628891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-628890","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\/628890","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=628890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}