{"id":1022758,"date":"2026-07-22T08:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022758"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:54:35","slug":"scam-losses-in-asian-regions-up-to-114-billion-dollars-in-2025-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/22\/scam-losses-in-asian-regions-up-to-114-billion-dollars-in-2025-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Scam losses in Asian regions up to 114 billion dollars in 2025: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK: Victims of transnational online scams in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand lost up to $114.1 billion last year, a UN report said on Tuesday, with estimated losses at least tripling from 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Southeast Asia, especially Cambodia and Myanmar, has emerged as a regional hub for crime syndicates running fake romance and cryptocurrency investment schemes in which scammers &#8212; some willing, others trafficked &#8212; often working in fortified compounds defraud internet users around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK: Victims of transnational online scams in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand lost up to $114.1 billion last year, a UN report said on Tuesday, with estimated losses at least tripling from 2023. Southeast Asia, especially Cambodia and Myanmar, has emerged as a regional hub for crime syndicates running fake romance and cryptocurrency investment schemes in which scammers &#8212; some willing, others trafficked &#8212; often working in fortified compounds defraud internet users around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022765,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022758\/revisions\/1022765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}