{"id":74494,"date":"2025-04-16T17:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74494"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:16:59","slug":"desperate-nigerians-lose-over-n1-7tr-to-ponzi-schemes-in-nine-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/16\/desperate-nigerians-lose-over-n1-7tr-to-ponzi-schemes-in-nine-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Nigerians lose over N1.7tr to Ponzi schemes in nine years"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/FRONT-1-665x400.jpg\" alt=\"Layout 1\" \/>Grief,<\/p>\n<p>shock and regret have overwhelmed thousands of Nigerians after CBEX, a once-celebrated digital asset platform, vanished into thin air, taking with it an estimated N1.4 trillion in life savings, pensions and borrowed \u2018hope\u2019.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/news\/desperate-nigerians-lose-over-n1-7tr-to-ponzi-schemes-in-nine-years\/\"> 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>Grief, shock and regret have overwhelmed thousands of Nigerians after CBEX, a once-celebrated digital asset platform, vanished into thin air, taking with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74494","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\/2025\/04\/Ponzi-scheme.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74494","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=74494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74496,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74494\/revisions\/74496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}