{"id":33234,"date":"2022-10-26T22:21:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=33234"},"modified":"2022-10-26T22:21:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:21:29","slug":"hastings-woman-out-83k-in-cryptocurrency-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=33234","title":{"rendered":"Hastings woman out $83K in cryptocurrency scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) &#8211; Hastings Police are investigating after a woman was scammed out of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">HPD Corporal Nathan Hanson said the 58-year-old woman from Hastings transferred $83,000 through the Coinme app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coinme.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">application touts itself <\/a>as the easiest way to buy or sell crypto using cash or debit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cpl. Hanson said she was tricked into sending the money to an unknown person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Better Business Bureau said its Cryptocurrency Study found lack of regulation and consumer education resulted in dramatic increase in fraud and financial losses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In 2021, the BBB received 2,465 complaints with losses of nearly $8 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\"><i>Copyright 2022 KSNB. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiUGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lmtub3BuZXdzMi5jb20vMjAyMi8xMC8yNi9oYXN0aW5ncy13b21hbi1vdXQtODNrLWNyeXB0b2N1cnJlbmN5LXNjYW0v0gEA?oc=5\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) &#8211; Hastings Police are investigating after a woman was scammed out of thousands of dollars. HPD Corporal Nathan Hanson said the 58-year-old woman from Hastings transferred $83,000 through the Coinme app. The application touts itself as the easiest way to buy or sell crypto using cash or debit. Cpl. Hanson said she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33235,"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":[36],"tags":[11982,52,9550,1301,4051],"class_list":["post-33234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-83k","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-hastings","tag-scam","tag-woman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/T43RJ6RPUREHDJDTTUWLF34SV4.bmp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33234","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=33234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33236,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33234\/revisions\/33236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}