{"id":57089,"date":"2014-12-13T09:03:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T14:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57089"},"modified":"2014-12-12T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T22:10:12","slug":"vet-scammed-by-phony-sheriffs-deouty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57089","title":{"rendered":"Vet scammed by phony sheriff&#8217;s deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone dropped off a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxal.com\/story\/27606571\/sheriff-man-posed-as-deputy-to-scam-elderly-wwii-vet-out-of-14k\">Alabama local news<\/a> about a scumbag who scammed $14000 from a World War II veteran. Apparently, the veteran was somehow scammed out of $5k a few months go, but never reported it. This phony sheriff&#8217;s deputy shows up and tells the veteran that he&#8217;s going to try and bust the first scammer;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He asked the victim to withdraw $9,000 cash and additional $5,000 cashier&#8217;s check to use as \u201cbait money\u201d to catch the bad guys.<\/p>\n<p>The victim agreed after the man assured him his money would be returned.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies say the suspect rode with the victim as the elderly man withdrew the money from his bank. The suspect then asked to be dropped off down the street \u201cin case they were being watched,\u201d Christian said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim then picked up the suspect and was instructed to drive to a convenience store on Highway 150 and Raymond Muscoda Road, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p>When the two arrived at the location, the suspect took the check so he could \u201cget fingerprints on it,\u201d Christian said.<\/p>\n<p>After walking around the building, the suspect returned and gave the victim the check back. He then asked the man for the cash to repeat the process.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect took the victim&#8217;s cash and walked around the building, but did not return.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The phony deputy is a serious POS. But, I have trouble understanding how the veteran would think he wasn&#8217;t being scammed again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone dropped off a link from Alabama local news about a scumbag who scammed $14000 from &hellip; <a title=\"Vet scammed by phony sheriff&#8217;s deputy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57089\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vet scammed by phony sheriff&#8217;s deputy<\/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":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57089","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=57089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}