A scam involving a famous actor and musician living on the Central Coast is making the rounds on social media.<\/p>\n
KSBY News anchor Richard Gearhart recently sat down with Billy Bob Thornton to talk about his love for the Central Coast and ties to Cal Poly.<\/p>\n
Billy Bob Thornton on being a proud Cal Poly dad and loving life by the coast<\/p>\n
This week, a KSBY viewer reached out, saying she was contacted by someone who appeared to be Thornton on Facebook, but it was a scam.<\/p>\n
After a month of chatting with a person she thought was Thornton, the imposter tried to sell her a membership card for a private autograph signing at a cost of more than $1,000.<\/p>\n
Gearhart contacted Thornton and the actor confirmed this is a scam. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt happens all the time. We had it removed but it just comes back,” Thornton said.<\/p>\n
The viewer said she doesn’t want anyone to fall victim to the scam.<\/p>\n
It’s a reminder to be skeptical of social media accounts that ask for money, no matter how legitimate they seem.<\/p>\n
Watch Gearhart\u2019s full interview with Billy Bob Thornton below:<\/p>\n
Full interview: Billy Bob Thornton talks Cal Poly, Central Coast and musical inspiration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scam involving a famous actor and musician living on the Central Coast is making the rounds on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-642121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}