{"id":30400,"date":"2012-06-15T08:13:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30400"},"modified":"2012-06-15T08:15:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:15:30","slug":"another-phony-charity-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30400","title":{"rendered":"Another phony charity plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/story\/2012-06-14\/internet-scam-soldier\/55605280\/1\" target=\"_blank\">USAToday reports<\/a> that a plea from a soldier&#8217;s twin sister on Craigslist for donations to help her legless brother after he stepped on an IED is just another scam;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My name is Tiffany Fennery, I&#8217;m posting this for my family and my twin brother, Chris, who lost both his legs and his left arm,&#8221; the posting states on Craigslist Pensacola (Fla.).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s just one problem with the solicitation: It appears to be fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p>The sergeant, Chris Fennery, pictured in fatigues doesn&#8217;t seem to exist in Pentagon records.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to our records there is no soldier by that name,&#8221; said Department of the Army spokesman Paul D. Prince after checking his branch&#8217;s database.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Corps also checked its record, even though the uniform in the Web ad&#8217;s photograph appears to be an Army uniform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got no record of a Chris Fennery serving in the Marine Corps,&#8221; responded Marine Capt. Greg Wolf in Washington, D.C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, donors beware. This kind of crap only hurts the legitimate causes out there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USAToday reports that a plea from a soldier&#8217;s twin sister on Craigslist for donations to help &hellip; <a title=\"Another phony charity plea\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30400\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another phony charity plea<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}