{"id":63769,"date":"2018-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63769"},"modified":"2018-05-17T23:25:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T03:25:32","slug":"sec-tries-to-scam-ico-investors-to-show-them-how-easy-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2018\/sec-tries-to-scam-ico-investors-to-show-them-how-easy-it-is.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC Tries to Scam ICO Investors to Show Them How Easy It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) A hot new initial coin offering gives investors the chance of a lifetime to make money from sun-soaked beaches and crystal-clear waters. It also provides something even more valuable: advice on how to avoid getting ripped off by fraudulent ICOs.   The Securities and Exchange Commission is pitching a fake initial coin offering to educate investors on the pitfalls of too-good-to-be-true ventures. The bogus digital currency, called HoweyCoins, has a sleek website, complete with a white paper, and pictures of made-up celebrity promoters and luxurious destinations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-05-16\/sec-tries-to-scam-ico-investors-to-show-them-how-easy-it-is\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) A hot new initial coin offering gives investors the chance of a lifetime to make money from sun-soaked beaches and crystal-clear waters. It also provides something even more valuable: advice on how to avoid getting ripped off by fraudulent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63770,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63769\/revisions\/63770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}