{"id":19769,"date":"2013-05-28T07:47:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T12:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=19769"},"modified":"2013-05-28T11:13:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:13:41","slug":"lottery-phone-scam-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=19769","title":{"rendered":"Lottery Phone Scam Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP May 28, 2013<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/scamalert1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11701\" alt=\"scamalert1\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/scamalert1-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/scamalert1-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/scamalert1-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/scamalert1.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>) &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0North Dakota&#8217;s top two prosecutors say telephone lottery scams have reached epidemic proportions in the region.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem and U.S. Attorney Tim Purdon said in a joint news conference Tuesday that the schemes often target the elderly and other vulnerable citizens.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Callers are told in a typical scenario that they have won an international lottery with a cash prize of $2.5 million and a new Mercedes.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stenehjem says he himself received a similar call and the scammer persisted even after he identified himself as attorney general.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fifteen people were charged recently in federal court for a Jamaican-based scam that targeted victims in the Dakotas.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Purdon says the fact that it was the first combined news conference for the two men &#8220;underscores the importance&#8221; of the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP May 28, 2013) &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0North Dakota&#8217;s top two prosecutors say telephone lottery scams have reached epidemic proportions in the region. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem and U.S. Attorney Tim Purdon said in a joint news conference Tuesday that the schemes often target the elderly and other vulnerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19769","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\/19769","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=19769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19783,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19769\/revisions\/19783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}