{"id":290345,"date":"2026-09-20T15:32:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290345\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:32:44","slug":"pennsylvania-man-loses-over-40k-to-scammer-impersonating-wwe-wrestler-rhea-ripley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290345\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man loses over $40K to scammer impersonating WWE wrestler Rhea Ripley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A local man lost tens of thousands of dollars to a scammer impersonating a WWE wrestler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Information shared by Pennsylvania State Police in Kittanning this week said they have crime happened in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Troopers said an unknown person or persons were portraying themselves as WWE wrestler Rhea Ripley. They were able to get $42,700 from a 64-year-old man through this scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A public information officer said the victim refused to cooperate with troopers\u2019 investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">No arrests have been made at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local man lost tens of thousands of dollars to a scammer impersonating a WWE wrestler. Information shared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8289,4112,31,28,30,29,1224,120490,120491,41023,120487,120488,120489,120486],"class_list":["post-290345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-armstrong-county","tag-butler-county","tag-crime","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-rhea-ripley-impersonator","tag-rhea-ripley-wwe-impersonator-scam","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-impersonation-scam","tag-wwe-impersonator","tag-wwe-rhea-ripley-scam","tag-wwe-wrestler-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290345","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=290345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}