{"id":728,"date":"2025-02-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:59:01","slug":"crypto-scammers-are-using-elon-musks-doge-to-defraud-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/crypto-scammers-are-using-elon-musks-doge-to-defraud-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto scammers are using Elon Musk&#039;s DOGE to defraud people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/crypto-scammers-are-using-elon-musks-doge-to-defraud-people_66z8.640.jpg\">Uncertainty regarding DOGE and dogecoin has given scammers a big opening.<\/p>\n<p>Public and private alarm has spiked since <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a> officially began executing the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/elon-musk-doge-access-data\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Government Efficiency&#8217;s agenda<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/doge-social-security-data-risk\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gaining access to sensitive databases<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/tech-industry\/52269\/elon-musk-killing-usaid-would-hurt-americas-future-heres-why\" target=\"_blank\">dismantling federal agencies<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/doge-firings-layoffs-federal-government-workers-musk-d33cdd7872d64d2bdd8fe70c28652654\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unceremoniously firing workers by the thousands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But now there \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertainty regarding DOGE and dogecoin has given scammers a big opening. Public and private alarm has spiked since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}