{"id":2602,"date":"2023-06-08T07:35:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T07:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2023-06-08T07:35:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T07:35:28","slug":"daily-news-updates-june-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/scam\/daily-news-updates-june-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Updates – June 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

CASH OUT \u2018Fake tipster\u2019 being Hunted<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Betting<\/a>
Betting scam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

POLICE are hunting an alleged ‘fake tipster’ who mysteriously disappeared after conning punters in a betting scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mitchell Fenton is alleged to have offered hugely inflated odds on a horse that won a race. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Mystery shopper scam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Mystery<\/a>
Mystery shopper scam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) – A Consumer First Alert about a shopping scam. Appleton police say a scam letter and a fake check were sent to one of its own officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I walked in and saw a priority envelope sitting in my work mailbox, I\u2019m like, that\u2019s odd,\u201d Police Captain Gary Lewis told us.Capt. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

\u2018Nigerian prince\u2019 email scams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"\u2018Nigerian<\/a>
\u2018Nigerian prince\u2019 email scams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cNigerian prince\u201d email scam is perhaps one of the longest-running Internet frauds. Actress Anne Hathaway even joked about it in her monologue on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d over a decade ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also called \u201cNigerian letter\u201d scams\u00a0or \u201cforeign money exchanges,\u201d these typically start with an email from someone overseas who claims to be royalty. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scam news 1 CASH OUT \u2018Fake tipster\u2019 being Hunted POLICE are hunting an alleged ‘fake tipster’ who mysteriously disappeared after conning punters in a betting scam. Mitchell Fenton is alleged to have offered hugely inflated odds on a horse that won a race. Read more Scam news 2 Mystery shopper scam APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) – […]<\/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-2602","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\/2602","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=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}