{"id":201055,"date":"2026-03-22T04:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201055\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T04:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:32:31","slug":"friend-of-potential-fraud-victim-credits-banks-quick-thinking-with-preventing-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201055\/","title":{"rendered":"Friend of potential fraud victim credits bank&#8217;s quick thinking with preventing scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0March 19, 2026 at 6:13 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">A 17-year-old from Jacksonville is facing exploitation charges after he allegedly offered to clean the driveway of a 79-year-old Middleburg man before taking him to three separate banks to withdraw over $10,000.  News4JAX is choosing not to identify the teen due to the nature of his charges and will only refer to the victim by his first name to protect his safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Published:\u00a0March 19, 2026 at 6:13 PM A 17-year-old from Jacksonville is facing exploitation charges after he allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[92842,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-201055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-friend-of-potential-fraud-victim-credits-banks-quick-thinking-with-preventing-scam","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}