{"id":302049,"date":"2026-07-21T18:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302049\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:53:17","slug":"new-york-state-gaming-commission-warning-residents-of-mega-millions-imposter-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302049\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Gaming Commission warning residents of Mega Millions imposter scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK STATE, USA \u2014 The New York State Gaming Commission is warning about a Mega Millions imposter scam that is targeting residents in multiple states.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Gaming Commission, residents reported receiving a call form someone that claimed to be a high-ranking official with Mega Millions. The caller allegedly tells victims that they won $18.6 million and two Mercedes-Benz vehicles. However, the caller claims that the victims need to pay taxes immediately or else the check and vehicle warranties expire.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Tips to avoid being scammed:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK STATE, USA \u2014 The New York State Gaming Commission is warning about a Mega Millions imposter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-302049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302049","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=302049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}