{"id":32732,"date":"2015-08-31T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=32732"},"modified":"2015-08-31T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T18:13:44","slug":"grantparents-scam-still-active","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=32732","title":{"rendered":"Grandparents Scam resurfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/phonescam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6230\" alt=\"phonescam\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/phonescam-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/phonescam-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/phonescam-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/phonescam.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0(CSi)\u00a0 The so-called &#8220;Grandparents Scam,&#8221; \u00a0has resurfaced.\u00a0 The scam has\u00a0an imposter\u00a0 calling\u00a0\u00a0a senior citizen who claims to be a grandchild in need of money.\u00a0 Residents\u00a0 asked to wire money or purchase a prepaid card should hang up, as this is a sure sign of a scam. \u00a0Unfortunately, it is hard for authorities to track the scammers since they use blocked numbers and impossible to get the money back once it is gone.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the \u201cGrandparent Scam\u201d and other scams, please visit the North Dakota Attorney Generals website at:\u00a0 www.ag.nd.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0(CSi)\u00a0 The so-called &#8220;Grandparents Scam,&#8221; \u00a0has resurfaced.\u00a0 The scam has\u00a0an imposter\u00a0 calling\u00a0\u00a0a senior citizen who claims to be a grandchild in need of money.\u00a0 Residents\u00a0 asked to wire money or purchase a prepaid card should hang up, as this is a sure sign of a scam. \u00a0Unfortunately, it is hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32732"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32751,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732\/revisions\/32751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}