{"id":74640,"date":"2025-04-21T18:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74640"},"modified":"2025-04-21T18:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:38:27","slug":"gangs-behind-billion-pound-cyber-scam-industry-spreading-like-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/21\/gangs-behind-billion-pound-cyber-scam-industry-spreading-like-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangs behind billion-pound cyber scam industry &#8216;spreading like cancer&#8217;"},"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:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1DkA4J.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Victims of scam centres who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar wait on a vessel. Pic: Reuters\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crime syndicates behind a multibillion-pound cyber scam industry are expanding globally as governments in South East Asia struggle to contain them, a UN report has warned. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/gangs-behind-billion-pound-cyber-scam-industry-spreading-like-cancer\/ar-AA1DkOU2?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=1dbf101d1f4148bca2aad231a492886b&amp;ei=12\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/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>Crime syndicates behind a multibillion-pound cyber scam industry are expanding globally as governments in South East Asia struggle to contain them, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74640","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\/02\/scammers-return-home.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74640","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=74640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74641,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74640\/revisions\/74641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}