{"id":299007,"date":"2026-07-18T23:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=299007"},"modified":"2026-07-18T23:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:37:14","slug":"chinese-fraud-rings-steal-billions-from-banks-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=299007","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Fraud Rings Steal Billions From Banks, Retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital forms of theft such as tap-to-pay schemes and app fraud are shaping the next wave of organized retail crime and fueling solo thieves to Chinese gangs, which earn as much as $1 billion annually from the crime, police say&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/07\/18\/chinese_fraud_rings_steal_billions_from_banks_retailers_705475.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: Real Clear Politics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital forms of theft such as tap-to-pay schemes and app fraud are shaping the next wave of organized retail crime and fueling solo thieves to Chinese gangs, which earn as much as $1 billion annually from the crime, police say&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17867],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/299008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299007"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=299007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}