{"id":10255,"date":"2025-10-21T02:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10255\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T02:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:44:13","slug":"man-arrested-accused-of-scamming-80-year-old-manhasset-resident-out-of-over-35k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10255\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested, accused of scamming 80-year-old Manhasset resident out of over $35K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is facing charges for his alleged role in a scam that stole $35,600 from an 80-year-old Manhasset resident, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the victim received a message on his phone claiming that he owed money to the Treasury Department.<\/p>\n<p>Several people went to his home to collect the cash over the course of two days last week.<\/p>\n<p>The victim then realized he was being scammed and called 911.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Yang Yang Wen, of Queens, was arrested on Oct. 18 and arraigned in Hempstead the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is facing charges for his alleged role in a scam that stole $35,600 from an 80-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[101,8424,9,24,63,122,124,123,5946],"class_list":{"0":"post-10255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-manhasset","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news","16":"tag-senior-scam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}