{"id":981,"date":"2021-03-28T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/28\/web-giants-must-stop-cashing-in-on-pension-scam-misery-say-mps\/"},"modified":"2021-03-28T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T13:17:07","slug":"web-giants-must-stop-cashing-in-on-pension-scam-misery-say-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/28\/web-giants-must-stop-cashing-in-on-pension-scam-misery-say-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Web giants must stop cashing in on pension scam misery, say MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law must address profits made by companies from fraudsters\u2019 advertisements<\/p>\n<p>Ministers must force tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft to stop the \u201cimmoral\u201d practice of profiting from the \u00a310bn of pension fraud committed by internet scammers, a committee of MPs has urged.<\/p>\n<p>Fraudsters use online advertisements, mostly on Google, to trick people out of their pension funds, according to a report published by the work and pensions select committee, but regulators are \u201cpowerless\u201d to hold the internet firms to account.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2021\/mar\/28\/web-giants-must-stop-cashing-in-on-pension-scam-misery-say-mps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/66692fbe5f944d9d0d8bb515129ddd78bcf39bc5\/0_0_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8a9dd18172ad8052e67f2b7ebd0cb589\" title=\"Web giants must stop cashing in on pension scam misery, say MPs\" \/>Law must address profits made by companies from fraudsters\u2019 advertisements<br \/>\nMinisters must force tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft to stop the \u201cimmoral\u201d practice of profiting from the \u00a310bn of pension fraud committed by internet scammers, a committee of MPs has urged.<br \/>\nFraudsters use online advertisements, mostly on Google, to trick people out of their pension funds, according to a report published by the work and pensions select committee, but regulators are \u201cpowerless\u201d to hold the internet firms to account. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law must address profits made by companies from fraudsters\u2019 advertisements Ministers must force tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft to stop the \u201cimmoral\u201d practice of profiting from the \u00a310bn of pension fraud committed by internet scammers, a committee of MPs has urged. Fraudsters use online advertisements, mostly on Google, to trick people out &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/28\/web-giants-must-stop-cashing-in-on-pension-scam-misery-say-mps\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Web giants must stop cashing in on pension scam misery, say MPs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}