{"id":611,"date":"2015-03-13T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2020-07-07T12:13:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T17:13:42","slug":"ventriloquist-fraud-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"VENTRILOQUIST FRAUD WARNING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hucksters are alive and well in puppetville<\/p>\n<p>Early this week we got an Email from Annalise Scheppers:<\/p>\n<p><em>Is your Item still available for sale and do you accept PayPal?Kindly get back to me<\/em> <a href=\"mailto:atascheppers285@gmail.com\"><em>atascheppers285@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To make a long story short, after 10 emails, these folks finally revealed that they wanted to pay us an unusual amount of money for a puppet ant then they wanted to have their &#8220;agent&#8221; pick up the puppet for them and we were to pay the agent $600.00 for picking up the puppet.   (To give you a hint, domestic shipping is never more than $35.00 and International is never more than $65.00).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If we were to pay $600.00 from money we got from these crooks, we would have found that their check would have bounced and we would have lost both a puppet and $600.00 paid to their &#8220;agent&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Cleaver little con, so be aware that there are still plenty of people out there who will try to help themselves to your pockets<\/p>\n<p>Thats all for now folks,<\/p>\n<p>Steve &amp; JET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hucksters are alive and well in puppetville Early this week we got an Email from Annalise Scheppers: Is your&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,59,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","category-personal","category-puppets","category-ventriloquism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}