{"id":61147,"date":"2015-08-01T07:48:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T11:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61147"},"modified":"2015-08-01T07:48:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T11:48:35","slug":"phony-ripping-off-soldiers-near-fort-sill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61147","title":{"rendered":"Phony ripping off soldiers near Fort Sill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone dropped off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschannel6now.com\/story\/29682161\/lawton-police-warn-of-man-scamming-service-members\">a link<\/a> on our Facebook page about a fellow pretending to be a soldier in the area of Fort Sill, Oklahoma to scam troops. His story changes. Sometimes he&#8217;s a transient soldier who needs money for gas or a taxi to the Fort Sill Welcome Center or he needs money to get his truck out of the impound lot;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On two occasions he has mentioned winning a jackpot at the casino, but needs the victim to pay the taxes. He will usually keep this going for three to four days before the service member catches on that he will not be paying the money back. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even his rank changes depending on who he is talking to at the time, so that he out-ranks his target.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police say his victims are always service members, none have been civilians. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The man always promises to pay back the money, mentioning that his wife is not yet in the area and that she will send the victim money via Western Union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s an old story. I&#8217;m sure we can all tell tales of being ripped off by civilians while we were trying to be helpful;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The description provided by police is a black male, approximately 37 years of age, 5\u20198\u201d and 150 pounds. He has very short cut hair with a receded hairline, brown hair and brown eyes. His first name is Willie<\/p>\n<p>Please be advised and watch out for this individual as the man\u2019s cover story is not true; he is not in the military and has not been in quite some time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone dropped off a link on our Facebook page about a fellow pretending to be a &hellip; <a title=\"Phony ripping off soldiers near Fort Sill\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61147\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phony ripping off soldiers near Fort Sill<\/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-61147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61147","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=61147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}