{"id":4018,"date":"2024-07-04T05:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2024-07-04T05:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:02:32","slug":"bowling-green-police-department-warns-of-landscaping-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/scam\/bowling-green-police-department-warns-of-landscaping-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowling Green Police Department Warns of Landscaping Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Bowling Green Police Department is alerting the community about a new scam involving landscaping services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police report that a group of three men is approaching residents, offering to spread pine straw in their yards at a low price. However, once the work is completed, they charge exorbitant amounts far exceeding the original estimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one incident, a resident was given an estimate of approximately $100. When the work was finished, the bill was a shocking $3,700.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspects are described as three men driving a white pickup truck with a screened-in trailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents are advised to decline any offers from these individuals and immediately contact the Bowling Green Police Department at 270-393-4244.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bowling Green Police Department is alerting the community about a new scam involving landscaping services. Police report that a group of three men is approaching residents, offering to spread pine straw in their yards at a low price. However, once the work is completed, they charge exorbitant amounts far exceeding the original estimate. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-4018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scam","tag-scam-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018","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=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4020,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions\/4020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}