{"id":984436,"date":"2026-01-10T07:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984436"},"modified":"2026-01-10T07:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:20:03","slug":"sever-the-chain-scam-tycoons-in-chinas-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/10\/sever-the-chain-scam-tycoons-in-chinas-crosshairs\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sever the chain&#8217;: Scam tycoons in China&#8217;s crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok: China is moving against the cyberscam tycoons making fortunes in Southeast Asia, driven by mounting public pressure and Beijing&#8217;s desire to keep control of judicial processes, analysts say. <\/p>\n<p>Across Southeast Asia, scammers lure internet users globally into fake romantic relationships and cryptocurrency investments. <\/p>\n<p>Initially largely targeting Chinese speakers &#8212; from whom they have extracted billions, prompting rising public anger &#8212; the scammers have expanded their operations into multiple languages to steal vast sums from victims around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok: China is moving against the cyberscam tycoons making fortunes in Southeast Asia, driven by mounting public pressure and Beijing&#8217;s desire to keep control of judicial processes, analysts say. Across Southeast Asia, scammers lure internet users globally into fake romantic relationships and cryptocurrency investments. Initially largely targeting Chinese speakers &#8212; from whom they have extracted billions, prompting rising public anger &#8212; the scammers have expanded their operations into multiple languages to steal vast sums from victims 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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984436","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=984436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}