{"id":137,"date":"2006-12-13T09:05:20","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T13:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2006-12-13T09:12:20","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T13:12:20","slug":"cops-more-trinis-call-in-with-tales-of-lottery-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Cops: More Trinis call in with tales of lottery scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/scam.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Scam\">Fraud Squad officers in San Fernando and Port of Spain yesterday, following the publication of the Express front page story, received a number of calls from people who said they had fallen victim to an international lotto scam. Police said that people from areas throughout the country had responded to the story about Trinidadians being fleeced in internet and postal lotto frauds.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn recent months several unsuspecting people have been conned into sending thousands of dollars overseas in order to collect bogus lotto winnings.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161066426\" title=\"More Trinis call in with tales of lottery scam\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>20\/20 Inside Look at Scam Artists<\/b><br \/>\nPhotosBrian Ross takes on the con artists who are ripping off millions of gullible Americans through e-mail scams out of Nigeria. See what happens when the tables are turned, and the scam artists get scammed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Video\/playerIndex?id=2717348\" title=\"20\/20 Inside Look at Scam Artists\">Full Video : abcnews.go.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Nigerian E-mail Scammers Target U.S. Churches<\/b><br \/>\nNigerian e-mail scammers are successfully targeting American churches and ministers, cheating them out of millions of dollars under the guise of spreading the word of Jesus.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktre.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=5787711&#038;nav=2FH5\" title=\"Nigerian E-mail Scammers Target U.S. Churches\">Full Article : ktre.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraud Squad officers in San Fernando and Port of Spain yesterday, following the publication of the Express front page story, received a number of calls from people who said they had fallen victim to an international lotto scam. Police said that people from areas throughout the country had responded to the story about Trinidadians being &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cops: More Trinis call in with tales of lottery scam<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}