{"id":332066,"date":"2025-08-27T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/this-electric-scooter-scam-turned-into-an-international-pyramid-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:00:05","slug":"this-electric-scooter-scam-turned-into-an-international-pyramid-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/this-electric-scooter-scam-turned-into-an-international-pyramid-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"This electric scooter scam turned into an international pyramid scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/this-electric-scooter-scam-turned-into-an-international-pyramid-scheme.jpg\" \/>What seemed like a too-good-to-be-true opportunity in micromobility has turned into a cautionary tale. The Lightning Shared Scooter Company (LSSC) lured investors with promises of leasing scooters in Asia, offering hefty daily returns to Western investors \u2013 often average folks instead of seasoned investors. But now regulators and watchdogs warn it was all a well\u2011orchestrated scam, leaving victims robbed of millions. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2025\/08\/27\/this-electric-scooter-scam-turned-into-an-international-pyramid-scheme\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/this-electric-scooter-scam-turned-into-an-international-pyramid-scheme\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":332067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}