OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. \u2014 The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office is warning about a fundraising scam that claims to be raising money for a good cause. <\/p>\n
Police say the scam reportedly asked victims to donate in support of a summer camp for kids with special needs that does not actually exist. <\/p>\n
Detectives were alerted to the scam last week when a Pontiac restaurant owner was swindled out of $150 on April 23.<\/p>\n
Police say the owner thought he was donating to support \u201c2026 Camp Explosion,\u201d a summer camp designed specifically for children with special needs.<\/p>\n
A camp flyer suggests a donation of $150 for one kid and $400 for a family that will cover camp costs. <\/p>\n
A website, a 1-800 phone number and a contact, Mrs. Alex, are listed on the flyer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank You and God bless you for giving,\u201d the flyer states.<\/p>\n
The phone number is connected to a legitimate financial services business that has nothing to do with any camp.<\/p>\n
Victims who have been scammed are encouraged to call the Sheriff\u2019s Office at 248-858-4950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. \u2014 The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office is warning about a fundraising scam that claims to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-292851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}