{"id":123359,"date":"2026-02-25T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123359\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:48:14","slug":"2-suspects-accused-of-running-scam-in-shaler-giant-eagle-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123359\/","title":{"rendered":"2 suspects accused of running scam in Shaler Giant Eagle parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of two people scamming customers in the parking lot of the Shaler Township Giant Eagle are under investigation, police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Shaler Township Police Department said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/p\/Shaler-Township-Police-Department-100064907971690\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a Facebook post<\/a>\u00a0that they took a report on Monday of two suspects scamming customers in the Giant Eagle parking lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The alleged scammers said they needed money for a funeral, but they wouldn&#8217;t take cash. Police said victims would hand over a credit or debit card for a donation. The suspects would then electronically copy the cards and either make charges on them or access the victim&#8217;s bank account to transfer money to a PayPal account, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shaler police said they&#8217;re continuing to investigate. They didn&#8217;t release any other details about the case on Wednesday, but they&#8217;re asking anyone with information to call the department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police are also warning residents to be cautious, saying scams in the area are on the rise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Additionally, please use caution as many fraudulent activities are active in our area,&#8221; police wrote on Facebook. &#8220;Do not provide anyone soliciting money in person or over the phone with any personal or financial information. If you have questions, please feel free to contact our agency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports of two people scamming customers in the parking lot of the Shaler Township Giant Eagle are under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,9340],"class_list":{"0":"post-123359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news","11":"tag-scam-alert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}