{"id":977077,"date":"2022-02-05T02:54:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T02:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/05\/banking-scams-are-soaring-and-victims-are-not-getting-their-money-back\/"},"modified":"2022-02-05T02:54:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T02:54:32","slug":"banking-scams-are-soaring-and-victims-are-not-getting-their-money-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/05\/banking-scams-are-soaring-and-victims-are-not-getting-their-money-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Banking scams are soaring, and victims are not getting their money back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new wave of fraud is targeting bank customers and the number of people falling victim to the scammers is increasing too, the ombud for banking services said in a consumer alert on Friday. Banking fraud has become a very lucrative business for online scammers, said ombud Reana Steyn. The banking fraud matters investigated by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new wave of fraud is targeting bank customers and the number of people falling victim to the scammers is increasing too, the ombud for banking services said in a consumer alert on Friday. Banking fraud has become a very lucrative business for online scammers, said ombud Reana Steyn. The banking fraud matters investigated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}