{"id":35,"date":"2026-03-14T19:31:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/?p=35"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:31:01","slug":"the-secret-service-victim-asset-recovery-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/the-secret-service-victim-asset-recovery-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Service &#8220;Victim Asset Recovery&#8221; (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Secret Service (USSS) managed to recover <strong>$2.1 million<\/strong> for a group of small-scale investors who fell for a fraudulent &#8220;AI-driven&#8221; trading bot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Scam:<\/strong> The platform promised 5% daily returns using &#8220;advanced AI algorithms,&#8221; but it was a classic Ponzi scheme.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Recovery:<\/strong> The USSS used &#8220;Chainalysis Reactor&#8221; to trace the funds through multiple &#8220;mixers&#8221; (services used to hide transaction paths). They discovered that the scammers had moved a large portion of the funds to a regulated exchange in Southeast Asia. Through an international judicial assistance request, the exchange was compelled to seize the assets and transfer them back to USSS custody for victim reimbursement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Secret Service (USSS) managed to recover $2.1 million for a group of small-scale investors who fell for a fraudulent &#8220;AI-driven&#8221; trading bot.<\/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-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}