{"id":432,"date":"2012-01-10T10:37:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2018-03-03T12:23:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T20:23:39","slug":"poor-kenneth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/poor-kenneth\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Kenneth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got this in my email today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Just writing to let you know our trip to Madrid, Spain has been a mess. We were having a great time until last night when we got mugged and lost all my cash,credit card cellphone It has been a scary experience, I was hit at the back of my neck with a club. Anyway, I&#8217;m still alive and that&#8217;s whats important. I&#8217;m financially strapped right now and need your help. I need you to loan me some $$, I&#8217;ll refund it to you as soon as i arrive home.Write me back so i can tell you how to get it to me.<\/p>\n<p>Regards, Kenneth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is quite sad. Poor Kenneth. Stuck in a foreign country, no cash, no credit cards, so he can&#8217;t get home. I should send him some money to help out.<\/p>\n<p>Except I don&#8217;t know a Kenneth. Even if I did (and this scam sometimes is from a name you recognize), not a good practice to send money to someone without verification. Unless you don&#8217;t care if you ever see that money again.<\/p>\n<p>These types of messages might come to you from you &#8220;cousin&#8221; or &#8220;granddaughter&#8221;, and might include information that seems valid. But it is a scam.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful out there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got this in my email today:<\/p>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Just writing to let you know our trip to Madrid, Spain has been a mess. We were having a great time until last night when we got mugged and lost all my cash,credit card cellphone It has been a scary experience, I was hit at the back of my neck with a club. Anyway, I&#8217;m still alive and that&#8217;s whats important. I&#8217;m financially strapped right now and need your help.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/poor-kenneth\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Poor Kenneth &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-saying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}