{"id":636603,"date":"2026-07-30T07:53:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/chinese-newspaper-warns-of-bitcoin-extortion-scam-using-its-name-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:53:44","slug":"chinese-newspaper-warns-of-bitcoin-extortion-scam-using-its-name-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/chinese-newspaper-warns-of-bitcoin-extortion-scam-using-its-name-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese newspaper warns of Bitcoin extortion scam using its name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-china-exit-scam2.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese newspaper warns of Bitcoin extortion scam using its name\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>China Business Journal says fraudsters impersonated the publication, demanding Bitcoin to suppress purported investigative reports about targeted companies.<\/p>\n<p>China Business Journal, a state-affiliated newspaper, has warned that fraudsters have been impersonating the publication to extort companies by demanding Bitcoin in exchange for suppressing damaging reports.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/y0g0RsqrrN6lRknyFZl3CA?scene=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> issued Thursday, the newspaper said scammers used a Proton Mail address to contact businesses, falsely claiming they had uncovered negative information through undercover investigations and threatening to publish the material unless paid in Bitcoin. <\/p>\n<p>The publication said the emails were unauthorized and that the scheme appeared to constitute fraud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/chinese-newspaper-bitcoin-extortion-scam-name\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Business Journal says fraudsters impersonated the publication, demanding Bitcoin to suppress purported investigative reports about targeted companies. China Business Journal, a state-affiliated newspaper, has warned that fraudsters have been impersonating the publication to extort companies by demanding Bitcoin in exchange for suppressing damaging reports. In a statement issued Thursday, the newspaper said scammers used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-636603","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\/636603","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=636603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}