{"id":314711,"date":"2026-08-05T22:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314711\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:46:15","slug":"manhattan-couple-loses-2800-in-telephone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314711\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan couple loses $2,800 in telephone scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"596\" data-end=\"713\">The Riley County Police Department is investigating a telephone scam that cost two Manhattan residents nearly $3,000.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"715\" data-end=\"786\">According to police, officers took the report around 7:10 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"788\" data-end=\"911\">A 25-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man reported an unknown suspect convinced them to transfer money during a phone scam.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"913\" data-end=\"962\">The victims reported losing approximately $2,800.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"964\" data-end=\"998\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Riley County Police Department is investigating a telephone scam that cost two Manhattan residents nearly $3,000. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-314711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314711","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=314711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}