{"id":54211,"date":"2025-07-30T02:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/5-5-billion-wiped-in-one-day-how-a-mexican-billionaire-lost-billions-in-online-scam\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T02:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:36:03","slug":"5-5-billion-wiped-in-one-day-how-a-mexican-billionaire-lost-billions-in-online-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/5-5-billion-wiped-in-one-day-how-a-mexican-billionaire-lost-billions-in-online-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"$5.5 billion wiped in one day: How a Mexican billionaire lost billions in online scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ricardo Salinas Pliego, a Mexican billionaire, lost a significant portion of his fortune, around $5.5 billion, in a sophisticated “loan-to-own” scam. Con artists posing as descendants of John Jacob Astor lured him into borrowing $400 million against his Grupo Elektra shares.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ricardo Salinas Pliego, a Mexican billionaire, lost a significant portion of his fortune, around $5.5 billion, in a sophisticated “loan-to-own” scam. Con artists posing as descendants of John Jacob Astor lured him into borrowing $400 million against his Grupo Elektra shares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":54212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}