{"id":25,"date":"2026-03-14T19:26:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/?p=25"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:26:43","slug":"operation-level-up-intervention-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/operation-level-up-intervention-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation &#8220;Level Up&#8221; Intervention (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The FBI\u2019s <strong>Operation Level Up<\/strong> is a proactive initiative designed to stop scams before the money is permanently lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Scam:<\/strong> This operation targets various cryptocurrency investment frauds, identifying victims while they are still in the process of sending money.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Recovery:<\/strong> As of late 2025, the FBI notified over <strong>8,000 victims<\/strong>, many of whom were unaware they were being scammed. By intervening at the right moment, the FBI prevented the loss of an estimated <strong>$511 million<\/strong>. In one specific instance, an investor was stopped just before they sent an additional $1 million to a fraudulent platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI\u2019s Operation Level Up is a proactive initiative designed to stop scams before the money is permanently lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}