{"id":21529,"date":"2022-07-01T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T11:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=21529"},"modified":"2022-07-01T11:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T11:27:42","slug":"more-than-2500-lost-after-westmoreland-county-store-is-targeted-in-bitcoin-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=21529","title":{"rendered":"More than $2,500 lost after Westmoreland County store is targeted in Bitcoin fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tState police are investigating what they\u2019re calling a fraud in which a Westmoreland County store employee put store money into the business\u2019s Bitcoin ATM after being coerced over the phone.According to police, the incident happened a little before 5:30 p.m. on June 16 at a business located in the area of 6750 Hollywood Boulevard in Salem Township.Police said the employee put approximately $2,685 into the ATM that\u2019s located in the store.Police said the store owner was made aware and the fraud was determined.Police said they\u2019re actively investigating the situation.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">SALEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>State police are investigating what they\u2019re calling a fraud in which a Westmoreland County store employee put store money into the business\u2019s Bitcoin ATM after being coerced over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the incident happened a little before 5:30 p.m. on June 16 at a business located in the area of 6750 Hollywood Boulevard in Salem Township.<\/p>\n<p><!-- article\/blocks\/side-floater --><\/p>\n<p><!-- article\/blocks\/side-floater --><\/p>\n<p>Police said the employee put approximately $2,685 into the ATM that\u2019s located in the store.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the store owner was made aware and the fraud was determined.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they\u2019re actively investigating the situation. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/more-than-dollar2500-lost-after-westmoreland-county-store-is-targeted-in-bitcoin-fraud\/40482324\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State police are investigating what they\u2019re calling a fraud in which a Westmoreland County store employee put store money into the business\u2019s Bitcoin ATM after being coerced over the phone.According to police, the incident happened a little before 5:30 p.m. on June 16 at a business located in the area of 6750 Hollywood Boulevard in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[37],"tags":[50,2588,3246,1687,54,8476,8050],"class_list":["post-21529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin","tag-county","tag-fraud","tag-lost","tag-store","tag-targeted","tag-westmoreland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/westmoreland-county-1647849590.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21531,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21529\/revisions\/21531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}