{"id":1793,"date":"2024-11-12T05:28:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/5-6b-lost-to-cryptocurrency-fraud-schemes-last-year-fbi\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T05:28:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T05:28:09","slug":"5-6b-lost-to-cryptocurrency-fraud-schemes-last-year-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/5-6b-lost-to-cryptocurrency-fraud-schemes-last-year-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"$5.6B lost to cryptocurrency fraud schemes last year: FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans lost more than $5.6 billion in 2023 from fraud schemes involving cryptocurrency, according to the FBI. The agency, in a report published Monday, said the bureau received more than 69,000 complaints last year from victims of financial fraud involving cryptocurrencies &mdash; such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether &mdash; equal to the roughly $5.6 billion&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/4874130-cryptocurrency-fraud-schemes-5-million-loss-fbi-report\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans lost more than $5.6 billion in 2023 from fraud schemes involving cryptocurrency, according to the FBI. The agency, in a report published Monday, said the bureau received more than 69,000 complaints last year from victims of financial fraud involving cryptocurrencies &mdash; such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether &mdash; equal to the roughly $5.6 billion&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}