{"id":678142,"date":"2026-10-30T01:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=859913"},"modified":"2026-10-30T01:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:30:03","slug":"us-freezes-1-billion-in-crypto-as-scam-networks-spread-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/us-freezes-1-billion-in-crypto-as-scam-networks-spread-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"US Freezes $1 Billion in Crypto as Scam Networks Spread Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/doj-1-3-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"DOJ\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>U.S. authorities have restrained more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency as overseas scam networks expand beyond Southeast Asia. New charges describe an alleged Madagascar dating scam that lured Americans into connecting crypto wallets to fraudulent investment websites. Crypto Restraints Cross $1 Billion as Crackdown Expands More than $1 billion in cryptocurrency tied to fraud and [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. authorities have restrained more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency as overseas scam networks expand beyond Southeast Asia. New charges describe an alleged Madagascar dating scam that lured Americans into connecting crypto wallets to fraudulent investment websites. Crypto Restraints Cross $1 Billion as Crackdown Expands More than $1 billion in cryptocurrency tied to fraud and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-678142","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\/678142","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=678142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}