{"id":18693,"date":"2025-10-27T18:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18693\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:07:11","slug":"manhattan-senior-loses-1250-in-impersonation-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18693\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan senior loses $1,250 in impersonation scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"260\">Riley County police are investigating a fraud case involving an elderly victim who was scammed out of $1,250 by individuals posing as federal agents.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"262\" data-end=\"570\">Officers filed the report at approximately 3:11 p.m. on Oct. 24 in the 1000 block of Westloop Place. According to the report, an 87-year-old man was contacted by unknown individuals who falsely claimed to be federal agents. The suspects allegedly threatened to close his bank accounts if he did not pay them.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"618\" data-end=\"809\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1350kman.com\/category\/local-news\/manhattan-local-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here for more local Manhattan news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riley County police are investigating a fraud case involving an elderly victim who was scammed out of $1,250&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[12805,12806,12807,12808,12809,75,84,12810,83,9,24,63,12811,800,12812],"class_list":["post-18693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-crime-stoppers-manhattan-ks","tag-elderly-scam","tag-federal-agent-scam","tag-fraud-scam-manhattan-ks","tag-local-manhattan-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-ks-crime","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rcpd-report","tag-riley-county-police","tag-westloop-place-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693","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=18693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}