{"id":16829,"date":"2012-10-12T10:13:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T08:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16829"},"modified":"2012-10-12T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T08:21:39","slug":"beware-of-religious-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/12\/beware-of-religious-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of religious scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cyprus Mail<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

POLICE YESTERDAY warned members of the public to be wary of scam artists posing as religious or charitable groups.<\/p>\n

According to police, a group of people are going around pretending to members of a church committee or charity selling pictures of negligible value for \u20ac50 or more.<\/p>\n

Their target market is elderly people who often get duped into buying the pictures, said police.<\/p>\n

The public is asked to be particularly careful and to report any suspicious incident to their nearest police station or the Citizen\u2019s Hotline on 1460.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This assumes that religious and charitable groups aren’t scamming people out of money. \u00a0And I, personally, find that debatable.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Cyprus Mail reports: POLICE YESTERDAY warned members of the public to be wary of scam artists posing as religious or charitable groups. According to police, a group of people are going around pretending to members of a church committee or charity selling pictures of negligible value for \u20ac50 or more. Their target market is elderly … Continue reading Beware of religious scammers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[2250,107],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-crime","tag-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13552,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/09\/you-are-not-welcome-to-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":16829,"position":0},"title":"You are not welcome to Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a few days after I've posted \"Welcome to Cyprus\", Cyprus News reports about the clash between the anti-racism festival goers and nationalist groups. 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