{"id":353456,"date":"2026-09-22T12:16:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353456\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:16:33","slug":"news-12-bronx-brooklyn-man-arrested-for-trying-to-scam-senior-citizen-out-of-20k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353456\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Brooklyn Man Arrested For Trying To Scam Senior Citizen Out Of 20k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A man is accused of trying to scam a senior citizen out of $20,000 in Nassau County.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to Electronic Squad\/Fraud and Forgery Section detectives, the 68-year-old got a message on his computer claiming it had been compromised.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">When the victim called the number on the screen, he was told he had to withdraw the funds from his bank to keep his money safe.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Baldwin man took the cash out of his account, but then became worried he was being scammed and subsequently called police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Following an investigation, Nassau police located Biaodi Jiang, 50, of Brooklyn, and placed him under arrest without incident.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jiang will be charged with attempted grand larceny when he is arraigned at First District Court in Hempstead on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are warning the community to be on alert and to remind vulnerable family members, friends and neighbors about potential scams or frauds.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone who thinks they may have been a victim is encouraged to contact the Nassau County Fraud and Forgery Section at (516) 573-2815 or call 911. All callers will remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is accused of trying to scam a senior citizen out of $20,000 in Nassau County. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-353456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353456","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=353456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}