{"id":290469,"date":"2026-09-20T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290469\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:46:11","slug":"pennsylvania-man-lost-42k-to-scammer-posing-as-wwes-rhea-ripley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290469\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man lost $42K to scammer posing as WWE\u2019s Rhea Ripley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ARMSTRONG COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) &#8212; A 64-year-old Western Pennsylvania man was allegedly scammed out of $42,700 by someone posing as former WWE Women&#8217;s Champion Rhea Ripley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pennsylvania State Police in Kittanning said this week that the incident happened in March, when the victim was contacted by someone he thought was the WWE Superstar, who turned out to be a scammer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While further details on the scam were limited, troopers noted that the man ultimately refused to cooperate with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When the story first broke over the weekend, WWE&#8217;s Adam Pearce, General Manager of Monday Night Raw, posted on his <a data-ylk=\"slk:social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/20531316728\/posts\/10154009990506729\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a> to warn fans: &#8220;I REPEAT: NO ONE in WWE is asking you for money. THINK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stay up to date with the latest news in the palm of your hand. <a data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtaj.com\/apps1\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to download the WTAJ app for Apple and Android devices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At this time, Ripley, who has been off TV due to injury, has not publicly commented on her name being used in the alleged scam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WTAJ | Your News Leader.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtaj.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WTAJ | Your News Leader.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) &#8212; A 64-year-old Western Pennsylvania man was allegedly scammed out of $42,700 by someone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120536,28,30,29,1224,119938,63915,119937],"class_list":["post-290469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-adam-pearce","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-rhea-ripley","tag-wtaj","tag-wwe-superstar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290469","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=290469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}