{"id":337585,"date":"2026-05-29T14:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/337585\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:27:23","slug":"california-man-found-guilty-of-scam-targeting-pelham-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/337585\/","title":{"rendered":"California man found guilty of scam targeting Pelham woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A California man was convicted Thursday of attempted theft by deception after police said he tried to scam a 92-year-old Pelham woman out of thousands of dollars. <\/p>\n<p>According to officials, 39-year-old Yalei Li used a malicious pop-up alert on the woman&#8217;s computer, claiming her bank accounts had been compromised and that a bank agent would pick up her money for safekeeping. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wmurapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Li was arrested in Pelham in April 2025 during the attempted pickup. <\/p>\n<p>He faces up to 15 years in New Hampshire State Prison and a $4,000 fine. <\/p>\n<p>Li is scheduled to be sentenced June 10. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 A California man was convicted Thursday of attempted theft by deception after police said he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[232,139284,2475,20675,237,139287,7,9,34230,8,49301,48025,139290,11198,23615,4164,139288,4263,566,14911,3335,139285,139289,236,139291,16681,238,3293,2429,139286],"class_list":["post-337585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-232","tag-39-year-old","tag-alert","tag-april","tag-arrest","tag-attempted-theft-by-deception","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-man","tag-california-news","tag-computer","tag-conviction","tag-deception","tag-dollar","tag-download","tag-guilty","tag-malicious-pop-up","tag-money","tag-new-hampshire","tag-nh","tag-official","tag-pelham","tag-pelham-woman","tag-police","tag-safekeeping","tag-scam","tag-theft","tag-thousand","tag-thursday","tag-yalei-li"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337585","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=337585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}