{"id":51725,"date":"2014-08-07T16:17:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T21:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=51725"},"modified":"2014-08-07T16:19:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T21:19:20","slug":"fake-irs-call-scams-n-d-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=51725","title":{"rendered":"FAKE IRS Call, Scams N.D. Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PHONE_SCAM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32757\" alt=\"PHONE_SCAM\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PHONE_SCAM-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PHONE_SCAM-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PHONE_SCAM-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PHONE_SCAM.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says a man reportedly lost almost $9,000 as a result of a fake Internal Revenue Service call.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stenehjem on Thursday said the caller threatened to get the victim arrested if he didn&#8217;t settle a phony debt stemming from his 2005 tax return.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The scammer directed the Wahpeton man to purchase 18 Green Dot cards totaling $8,897 and to read off the numbers on the back of each card. The scammer then emptied the money from the cards.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stenehjem says hundreds of people are receiving these calls. He says the caller often has a foreign accent and it appears the calls were placed in Ireland.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He adds people should never agree to send money without first independently verifying whether an alleged debt is valid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says a man reportedly lost almost $9,000 as a result of a fake Internal Revenue Service call. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stenehjem on Thursday said the caller threatened to get the victim arrested if he didn&#8217;t settle a phony debt stemming from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51725","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\/51725","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=51725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51728,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51725\/revisions\/51728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}