{"id":76749,"date":"2025-06-25T22:26:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76749"},"modified":"2025-06-25T22:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:26:48","slug":"scam-in-a-teacup-the-fraudster-who-conned-luxury-brands-into-buying-fake-scottish-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/25\/scam-in-a-teacup-the-fraudster-who-conned-luxury-brands-into-buying-fake-scottish-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Scam in a teacup: The fraudster who conned luxury brands into buying fake \u2018Scottish tea\u2019"},"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:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/t5owXyNIc5OHzh_eyFQOVg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/the_independent_577\/d313ba82fe13a1fb46f5ed09da1d33de\" alt=\"Fake Scottish tea fraudster who scammed luxury hotels out of \u00a3500k ...\" width=\"588\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A man who amassed more than \u00a3550,000 by selling tea he falsely claimed was cultivated in Scotland to high-end businesses has been jailed for three and a half years.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/scam-in-a-teacup-the-fraudster-who-conned-luxury-brands-into-buying-fake-scottish-tea\/ar-AA1Hp3pt?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=c3ac5c09bf5c41b990cd2196b0ef4e68&amp;ei=20\"> 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>A man who amassed more than \u00a3550,000 by selling tea he falsely claimed was cultivated in Scotland to high-end businesses has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76749","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\/06\/Thomas-Robinson-scammer.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76749","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=76749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76751,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76749\/revisions\/76751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}