{"id":3530,"date":"2024-04-10T07:56:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T07:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2024-04-10T07:56:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T07:56:19","slug":"83-year-old-man-losses-32000-microsoft-tech-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/tech-scam\/83-year-old-man-losses-32000-microsoft-tech-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"83 year old man losses $32000 – Microsoft tech scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An 83-year-old man from Saddle Rock fell victim to a scam, losing nearly $32,000 to two individuals who falsely claimed to be Microsoft employees. They convinced him his computer was at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 18, he received a notification on his computer warning him of a compromise and urging him to call a provided number for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scammer, posing as a Microsoft employee, claimed there was suspicious activity on his phone and bank account. He was instructed to withdraw $16,000 in cash to resolve the issue, which he did on January 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next day, the scammers demanded an additional $15,000, which was collected by a second man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon being contacted a third time, the victim refused to cooperate and reported the matter to the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After investigating, authorities arrested 47-year-old Rong Chen and 46-year-old ZhenSheng Yu on charges of grand larceny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two men in handcuffs being escorted by police officers, with the Nassau County Police Department in the background, representing the arrest of the scammers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nassau County police are advising the community to stay vigilant and to inform vulnerable individuals about the risks of scams and fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An 83-year-old man from Saddle Rock fell victim to a scam, losing nearly $32,000 to two individuals who falsely claimed to be Microsoft employees. They convinced him his computer was at risk. On January 18, he received a notification on his computer warning him of a compromise and urging him to call a provided number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,121],"tags":[111,33,43],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-scam","category-tech-scams","tag-business-scams","tag-scam-awareness","tag-scammers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","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=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3534,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/3534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}