{"id":78525,"date":"2025-08-13T15:06:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78525"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:06:46","slug":"ugandan-authorities-arrest-seven-over-70000-gold-scam-targeting-nigerian-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/ugandan-authorities-arrest-seven-over-70000-gold-scam-targeting-nigerian-lawmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan Authorities Arrest Seven Over $70,000 Gold Scam Targeting Nigerian Lawmaker"},"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:\/\/sp-ao.shortpixel.ai\/client\/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img,w_1024,h_682\/https:\/\/lifestyleuganda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nigerian.jpeg\" alt=\"Ugandan authorities say the suspects posed as gold traders and lured a Nigerian legislator to Kampala.\" width=\"633\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"l-shared-sec-outer show-mobile\">\n<div class=\"l-shared-sec\">\n<div class=\"l-shared-items effect-fadeout is-color\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e-ct-outer\">\n<div class=\"entry-content rbct clearfix is-highlight-shares\">\n<p>Ugandan authorities have arrested seven people accused of swindling a Nigerian legislator out of about $70,000 in a gold scam \u2014 a case officials say underscores persistent fraud in East Africa\u2019s loosely regulated precious metals trade.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/lifestyleuganda.com\/ugandan-authorities-arrest-seven-70000-gold-scam-targeting-nigerian-lawmaker\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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>Ugandan authorities have arrested seven people accused of swindling a Nigerian legislator out of about $70,000 in a gold scam \u2014 a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78525","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\/08\/Ugandans-scams-Nigerians.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78525","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=78525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78527,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78525\/revisions\/78527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}