{"id":66929,"date":"2024-10-26T00:25:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T00:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=66929"},"modified":"2024-10-26T00:39:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T00:39:40","slug":"online-catfishing-abuser-believed-to-have-targeted-3500-victims-across-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/26\/online-catfishing-abuser-believed-to-have-targeted-3500-victims-across-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Online catfishing abuser believed to have targeted 3,500 victims across world"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/25\/21\/91297059-0-image-a-109_1729887908473.jpg\" alt=\"Detectives missed TWO chances to stop Britain's 'most prolific catfisher' Alexander\" width=\"450\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/northern-ireland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Northern Ireland<\/a> man at the centre of a global web of catfishing, blackmail and sexual abuse is believed by police to have targeted about 3,500 children.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/online-catfishing-abuser-believed-to-have-targeted-3-500-victims-across-world\/ar-AA1sVhFD?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6b25999ee7b84caea9ea678fde5ba4e1&amp;ei=19\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; A Northern Ireland man at the centre of a global web of catfishing, blackmail and sexual abuse is believed by police&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/catfish.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66936,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66929\/revisions\/66936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}