{"id":127005,"date":"2017-08-15T07:07:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T12:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=127005"},"modified":"2017-08-15T18:02:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T23:02:51","slug":"grandparents-scam-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=127005","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Grandparents Scam&#8221; reported in Devils Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/GrandparentScam1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-127023\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/GrandparentScam1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/GrandparentScam1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/GrandparentScam1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/GrandparentScam1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Police in Devils Lake say an elderly woman has lost $8,000 in the so-called &#8220;grandparents scam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the 84-year-old woman got a call from someone claiming that her granddaughter had been in a crash in Ohio and that drugs were found in her car. \u00a0 The victim was told to purchase gift cars and send them in overnight mail concealed in a magazine.<\/p>\n<p>After sending the cards, police say the woman was asked to send another $9,000 to pay for a lawyer for her granddaughter. Officials say employees at Walmart, where the woman made the transaction, became suspicious and stopped the payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Police in Devils Lake say an elderly woman has lost $8,000 in the so-called &#8220;grandparents scam.&#8221; Authorities say the 84-year-old woman got a call from someone claiming that her granddaughter had been in a crash in Ohio and that drugs were found in her car. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127116,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127005\/revisions\/127116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}