{"id":40793,"date":"2004-01-31T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-31T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/01\/31\/section-419-scammers-arrested-in-netherlands-danish-flag-flies-proudly\/"},"modified":"2004-01-31T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-31T07:44:00","slug":"section-419-scammers-arrested-in-netherlands-danish-flag-flies-proudly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040131-00\/?p=40793","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Section 419&quot; scammers arrested in Netherlands; Danish flag flies proudly"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"q\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katv.com\/news\/stories\/0104\/122644.html\">Dutch police have arrested 52 people suspected of defrauding gullible Internet users<\/a> in one of the largest busts of the infamous &#8220;Nigerian e-mail&#8221; scam. Hooray for the Dutch police. Their next target: Web sites that illustrate a Dutch article with the Danish flag.<\/p>\n<p>(I must sheepishly admit that I too <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/01\/29\/64390.aspx\">mistakenly identified the home of Ikea as Denmark rather than the Netherlands<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch police have arrested 52 people suspected of defrauding gullible Internet users in one of the largest busts of the infamous &#8220;Nigerian e-mail&#8221; scam. Hooray for the Dutch police. Their next target: Web sites that illustrate a Dutch article with the Danish flag. (I must sheepishly admit that I too mistakenly identified the home of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-40793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Dutch police have arrested 52 people suspected of defrauding gullible Internet users in one of the largest busts of the infamous &#8220;Nigerian e-mail&#8221; scam. Hooray for the Dutch police. Their next target: Web sites that illustrate a Dutch article with the Danish flag. (I must sheepishly admit that I too mistakenly identified the home of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}