{"id":2413,"date":"2023-05-18T07:33:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T07:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2023-05-18T07:33:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T07:33:50","slug":"daily-news-updates-may-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/scam\/daily-news-updates-may-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Updates – May 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Scam news 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grandparent Kidnapping Scam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Grantparent<\/a>
Grantparent scam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Take that threatening phone call demanding money for an outrageous claim with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In yet another example of a phone-based scam, the Boston Police Department on Sunday sent officers out to check in on a woman and her young daughter in the area of Waltham Street who had allegedly been kidnapped, based on a call the woman\u2019s parent had received. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scam news 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Fake father\u2019 Citizenship Scam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Fake<\/a>
Fake father scam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

British men are allegedly being offered thousands of pounds by migrant pregnant women to pose as fathers of their babies in the latest citizenship fraud, a BBC investigation revealed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scammers are offering up to \u00a310,000 (12,536 USD) to these men to add their names to a child’s birth certificate, providing UK citizenship to them and enabling their mothers a route to permanent residency. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scam news 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chase Bank ATM Scam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"ATM<\/a>
ATM scam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

SAN FRANCISCO — We revealed a new type of ATM scam where thieves poured glue in the card reader, forcing victims to use the tap feature, then draining their accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It happened to several Chase Bank customers in San Francisco. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scam news 1 Grandparent Kidnapping Scam Take that threatening phone call demanding money for an outrageous claim with a grain of salt. In yet another example of a phone-based scam, the Boston Police Department on Sunday sent officers out to check in on a woman and her young daughter in the area of Waltham Street […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}