{"id":2945,"date":"2025-03-30T10:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/us-seized-82-million-in-crypto-linked-to-romance-baiting-scams\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T10:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:03:37","slug":"us-seized-82-million-in-crypto-linked-to-romance-baiting-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/us-seized-82-million-in-crypto-linked-to-romance-baiting-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. seized $8.2 million in crypto linked to &#8216;Romance Baiting&#8217; scams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>U.S. seized $8.2 million in crypto linked to &#8216;Romance Baiting&#8217; scams<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized over $8.2 million worth of USDT (Tether) cryptocurrency that was stolen via &#8216;romance baiting&#8217; scams. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/cryptocurrency\/us-seized-82-million-in-crypto-linked-to-romance-baiting-scams\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. seized $8.2 million in crypto linked to &#8216;Romance Baiting&#8217; scams The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized over $8.2 million worth of USDT (Tether) cryptocurrency that was stolen via &#8216;romance baiting&#8217; scams. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,282,134],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-cryptocurrency","category-legal","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}