{"id":31,"date":"2026-03-14T19:29:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/?p=31"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:29:46","slug":"the-operation-spincaster-success-august-2024-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/the-operation-spincaster-success-august-2024-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Operation Spincaster&#8221; Success (August 2024 &#8211; 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a massive international effort involving Chainalysis and police departments across six countries, a major crackdown was launched against &#8220;Approval Phishing&#8221; scams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Scam:<\/strong> Scammers tricked victims into signing a transaction that gave the attacker permission to spend tokens from the victim\u2019s wallet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Recovery:<\/strong> During a series of &#8220;operational sprints,&#8221; investigators identified over <strong>$162 million<\/strong> in stolen funds. By working directly with stablecoin issuers like Tether, they were able to freeze thousands of accounts. In one specific instance, a victim in the UK had <strong>$1.2 million<\/strong> returned after the stolen USDT was frozen just hours after the theft.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a massive international effort involving Chainalysis and police departments across six countries, a major crackdown was launched against &#8220;Approval Phishing&#8221; scams.<\/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-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}