{"id":62318,"date":"2025-12-07T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=62318"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:31:31","slug":"when-a-scam-sounds-too-real-victim-ignores-cops-and-loses-thousands-at-crypto-atm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=62318","title":{"rendered":"When A Scam Sounds Too Real: Victim Ignores Cops And Loses Thousands At Crypto ATM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An elderly woman in Westlake was deceived into depositing\u00a0thousands of dollars into a\u00a0cryptocurrency ATM by a scammer. This occurred despite multiple warnings from both police and store employees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: A 71-year-old woman was seen\u00a0at a Marathon convenience store\u00a0last month, continuously putting cash into a Bitcoin ATM while engaged in a phone call. Despite the store employee and police urging her to stop, believing she was falling victim to a scam, the woman continued.<\/p>\n<p>Police body camera footage captured an officer warning the woman, \u201cWe\u00a0deal with this all the\u00a0time, stop what you&#8217;re doing,\u00a0I&#8217;m telling you, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49248370\/when-a-scam-sounds-too-real-victim-ignores-cops-and-loses-thousands-at-crypto-atm?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"When\" a scam sounds too real: victim ignores cops and loses thousands at crypto atm>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly woman in Westlake was deceived into depositing\u00a0thousands of dollars into a\u00a0cryptocurrency ATM by a scammer. This occurred despite multiple warnings from both police and store employees. What Happened: A 71-year-old woman was seen\u00a0at a Marathon convenience store\u00a0last month, continuously putting cash into a Bitcoin ATM while engaged in a phone call. Despite the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-62318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}