Lackawanna County<\/a>.<\/p>\n“All the funds from this event go back to the host company for buying equipment, gear, stuff like that for our members. So this event is a huge way, especially this day and age with the rising cost of everything, for us to be able to fund and protect our community and the community, and other communities we serve,” said Captain Bobby Berta Jr of Jessup Hose Company #2.<\/p>\n
But a week before all the festivities, Berta says a post on the hose company\u2019s Facebook page looked like it was taking advantage of those wanting to be a part of the fun.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re notified by one of our members at a local business was contacted by a phishing account on Facebook,” said Berta. “He notified the department, and we took the following steps to make sure that everything was corrected. There were no issues, no money was transferred, anything like that. Also, over the following weeks, we\u2019ve been really heavy on our event page on Facebook. There\u2019s been a lot of phishing attempts and things like that in the comment sections, or people reaching out, and they see who\u2019s commenting.”<\/p>\n
Thankfully, no money was exchanged, and the post was deleted before anyone else could fall victim.<\/p>\n
This kind of scam is not uncommon, and they\u2019ve dealt with it before.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, there are bad people out in the world like this, and they\u2019re trying to extort the good people that want to donate to us, and it\u2019s just something that we have to counter and deal with,” said Berta.<\/p>\n
Organizers advise anyone interested in working with the carnival or in learning more about it to call the fire company directly.<\/p>\n
And if you\u2019re looking to support first responders and not scammers, the 34th Jessup Hose Company Number 2 Annual Carnival starts May 20th and ends May 25th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of Jessup Hose Company #2 thankfully caught the scammers before any money was lost. JESSUP, Pa. \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-197080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197080","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=197080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}