{"id":80256,"date":"2018-06-30T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80256"},"modified":"2018-06-30T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T13:00:43","slug":"thieves-drain-richard-overtons-bank-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80256","title":{"rendered":"Thieves drain Richard Overton&#8217;s bank accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38372\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/richard-overton-veteran-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/richard-overton-veteran-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/richard-overton-veteran-222x333.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/richard-overton-veteran.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve written a few times about Richard Overton, who, at 112 years old, is the oldest living veteran. <a href=\"http:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/nation-world\/thieves-empty-bank-account-of-112-year-old-richard-overton-oldest-living-wwii-vet\">WJLA<\/a> reports that he&#8217;s the victim of identity theft;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to [Volma Overton, Richard&#8217;s cousin], he noticed something suspicious Wednesday when he deposited money in Richard&#8217;s checking account.<\/p>\n<p>He saw the only money in the account was what he had just deposited.<\/p>\n<p>The bank told him Treasury Direct withdrew money four different times.<\/p>\n<p>Friday morning, they learned someone set up an account with Treasury Direct using Overton&#8217;s name and social security number to withdraw money and buy savings bonds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No one is immune from identity thieves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve written a few times about Richard Overton, who, at 112 years old, is the oldest &hellip; <a title=\"Thieves drain Richard Overton&#8217;s bank accounts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80256\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thieves drain Richard Overton&#8217;s bank accounts<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80256","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=80256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}