{"id":25147,"date":"2024-04-24T15:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/scam-alert-ont-senior-loses-25k-after-falling-for-fake-website-masquerading-as-geek-squad\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:55:24","slug":"scam-alert-ont-senior-loses-25k-after-falling-for-fake-website-masquerading-as-geek-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/scam-alert-ont-senior-loses-25k-after-falling-for-fake-website-masquerading-as-geek-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"SCAM ALERT | Ont. senior loses $25K after falling for fake website masquerading as Geek Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vjx0C1nOns8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>An Ontario senior says he lost $25,000 after a falling for a fake website on Google that was masquerading as Best Buy&#8217;s Geek Squad.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to CTV News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CTV News:<br \/>\nFor live updates and latest headlines visit: <br \/>\nFor breaking news, fast, download the CTV News App:<br \/>\nMust-watch stories and full programs at<\/p>\n<p>CTV News on TikTok:<br \/>\nCTV News on X (formerly Twitter):  <br \/>\nCTV News on Reddit:<br \/>\nCTV News on LinkedIn:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nCTV News is Canada&#8217;s most-watched news organization both locally and nationally, and has a network of national, international, and local news operations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ontario senior says he lost $25,000 after a falling for a fake website on Google that was masquerading as Best Buy&#8217;s Geek Squad. Subscribe to CTV News to watch more videos: Connect with CTV News: For live updates and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2754,1757,2755,6465,48,2561,25471,25472,3387,25473,298,2990],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}