{"id":97834,"date":"2025-12-28T17:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97834\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:11:08","slug":"stuart-resident-loses-10k-in-fdic-impersonation-scam-police-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97834\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart resident loses $10K in FDIC impersonation scam, police warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Stuart resident lost $10,000 after a scammer posing as an FDIC employee convinced the victim to withdraw and hand over cash, police say.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StuartPoliceDepartment\/posts\/pfbid0xh2tE4Njr5J2HC6z8Xmva3be7iBRj1NkMUWUn1BqukMktYgzfbEQPUNHQ1gqeef9l?__cft__[0]=AZYGhKBwxmXLcXPhuLrUUEfq2UqEQtfKjx3TC3dpXLSn1eOhGc55SWVW40_NMBa_F6Rkx7mR4qg1xOgV7P_Eyt2SyYZAUQ4AoRp0HES-CYzOF4IiCyRMtURTBvAmzwgReMd73a5aGJylC1DHiU-m2ekx9BDx801RrT_1BuiDGP2lSqc9v2kGnNXUN1AXF5_zdKs&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announcement<\/a> from the Stuart Police Department, a scammer posed as an FDIC employee and told a Stuart victim that bank employees were under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the fake investigation, the scammer fraudulently instructed the victim to withdraw a large amount of cash, purchase a lockbox, and meet the scammer posing as an undercover officer at a public location.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/florida-man-sentenced-to-3-years-after-police-chase-reveals-gun-with-machine-gun-converter-florida-news-florida-man-crime-news-convicted-felon-prison-sentence-december-28-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida man sentenced to 3 years after police chase reveals gun with machine gun converter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the instructions of the fraudster, the victim was scammed out of $10,000, per SPD.<\/p>\n<p>The department reminds the public that FDIC, banks, and law enforcement will never ask anyone to withdraw cash and hand it over in public.<\/p>\n<p>Police urge anyone who receives a call like this to hang up and contact SPD at 772-287-1122.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Stuart resident lost $10,000 after a scammer posing as an FDIC employee convinced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-97834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97834","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=97834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}