{"id":47540,"date":"2025-11-21T17:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47540\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:32:56","slug":"manhattan-burlington-coat-factory-victimized-by-bitcoin-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47540\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Burlington Coat Factory victimized by bitcoin scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Manhattan store was out more than $1,700 after it fell victim to a bitcoin scam Thursday afternoon, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incident was reported around 3:09 p.m. Thursday at the Burlington Coat Factory at 425 3rd Place in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Riley County police officials said an unknown male called the store and instructed personnel to take money from the register and deposit it into a bitcoin machine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Burlington Coat Factory in Manhattan was out more than $1,700 after it fell victim to a...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CWDG3HVCMVGOZEJJAAE7HAMQZA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Burlington Coat Factory in Manhattan was out more than $1,700 after it fell victim to a bitcoin scam on Thursday afternoon, officials said.(WIFR Newsroom)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The total estimated loss associated with this case is $1,740. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There were no immediate reports of arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information, contact Manhattan Riley County Crime Stoppers at 785-539-7777.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Manhattan store was out more than $1,700 after it fell victim to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[16967,26907,75,84,83,9,24,63,104,3132,5947],"class_list":["post-47540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-bitcoin","tag-burlington-coat-factory","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-police","tag-riley-county","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47540","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=47540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}