{
  "id": 7467333,
  "title": "S'pore cafe owner, 31, receives WhatsApp verification message from 'hotel staff' about overseas booking, gets scammed of nearly S$2,000",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/spore-cafe-owner-31-receives-whatsapp-verification-message-from-hotel",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-14T18:54:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mothership",
    "slug": "mothership",
    "url": "https://mothership.sg/2026/09/spore-cafe-owner-scammed/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The scammers used details from a hotel booking he had made.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Mothership",
        "title": "Man, 41, a Bangladeshi national, fights man in S'pore & lodges false police report that he got robbed, gets 13 months & 2 weeks’ jail",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/man-41-a-bangladeshi-national-fights-man-in-spore-lodges-false-police",
        "published": "2026-09-14T11:42:04.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}