{"id":78331,"date":"2024-07-30T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=78331"},"modified":"2024-07-30T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T09:00:47","slug":"hong-kong-police-arrest-quartet-accused-of-using-counterfeit-banknotes-to-swindle-crypto-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=78331","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Police Arrest Quartet Accused of Using Counterfeit Banknotes to Swindle Crypto Traders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/dddccxxee-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Hong Kong Police Arrest Quartet Accused of Using Counterfeit Banknotes to Swindle Crypto Traders\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/dddccxxee-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/dddccxxee-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/dddccxxee-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/dddccxxee-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/dddccxxee-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/dddccxxee-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/dddccxxee.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">A group of four Hong Kong fraudsters, who swindled victims\u2019 digital assets worth $1.4 million between October 2023 and July 2024, have been apprehended. The suspects, aged 14 to 39, are charged with conspiracy to defraud and possession of 5,000 counterfeit banknotes. According to Hong Kong laws, producing and circulating counterfeit currency can result in [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of four Hong Kong fraudsters, who swindled victims\u2019 digital assets worth $1.4 million between October 2023 and July 2024, have been apprehended. The suspects, aged 14 to 39, are charged with conspiracy to defraud and possession of 5,000 counterfeit banknotes. According to Hong Kong laws, producing and circulating counterfeit currency can result in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}