{"id":242677,"date":"2026-08-14T01:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/ukraine-shuts-down-94-fraudulent-call-centers-seize-millions-in-cash"},"modified":"2026-08-14T01:16:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:16:43","slug":"ukraine-shuts-down-94-fraudulent-call-centers-seize-millions-in-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/ukraine-shuts-down-94-fraudulent-call-centers-seize-millions-in-cash","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine shuts down 94 fraudulent call centers, seize millions in cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ukraine-shuts-down-94-fraudulent-call-centers-seize-millions-in-cash.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Ukraine shut down 94 fraudulent call centers across the country that lured people into investment scams or tried to obtain access to bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The operation occurred this week, and police officers conducted a total of 411 searches following an investigation that involved the National Police, Ukraine\u2019s Security Service, the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office, and the German police.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ukrainian police, the fraudsters ran various schemes to obtain money from victims or gain access to their bank accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Ukraine shut down 94 fraudulent call centers across the country that lured people into investment scams or tried to obtain access to bank accounts. The operation occurred this week, and police officers conducted a total of 411 searches following an investigation that involved the National Police, Ukraine\u2019s Security Service, the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}