{"id":232739,"date":"2026-05-15T15:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232739\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:21:09","slug":"man-scammed-out-of-2500-on-when-online-bike-deal-went-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232739\/","title":{"rendered":"Man scammed out of $2,500 on when online bike deal went south"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A 30-year-old man is feeling the sting of losing $2,500 on an online scam having to do with a bicycle in an incident reported in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Riley County police officers filed a fraud report around 12:52 p.m. Thursday in the 1500 block of College Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The victim told police he purchase a bike online from what turned out to be a fraudulent seller.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A 30-year-old man was scammed out of $2,500 in an online bike deal in Manhattan, officials said.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GLDOPRYRXFLF3FZN7AYR5W2PYM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"580\" \/>A 30-year-old man was scammed out of $2,500 in an online bike deal in Manhattan, officials said.(KWCH)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There were no immediate reports of arrests and additional details weren\u2019t avilable on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Check <a href=\"https:\/\/wibw.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/wibw.com\" target=\"_blank\">wibw.com<\/a> later for more information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A 30-year-old man is feeling the sting of losing $2,500 on an online scam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[52791,89454,45180,396,75,84,83,9,24,63,800,5947],"class_list":["post-232739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-52791","tag-89454","tag-bicycle","tag-fraud","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-riley-county-police","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232739","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=232739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}