{"id":6030,"date":"2025-05-05T10:14:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arfpnc.com\/?p=6030"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:14:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:14:23","slug":"fraudulent-venmo-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arfpnc.com\/?p=6030","title":{"rendered":"Fraudulent Venmo Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve received word that scammers are using a Venmo account using a similar name and profile picture. If you receive a request to donate money (so far they&#8217;ve requested money for spay\/neuters but can use different ploys) verify the sender.  Here are important differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>@ARFPNC is the legitimate account. Scammers are currently using @ARPFNC&#8211; (note the two dashes) but can rotate through various special characters to mask their activities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The legitimate ARFP account is a business account. It will not show up as a personal account<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;ve received a request from the scam account:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Report it as junk or fraud<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Email a screenshot to phishing@venmo.com<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can also forward it to your local police departmen<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve received word that scammers are using a Venmo account using a similar name and profile picture. If you receive a request to donate money (so far they&#8217;ve requested money for spay\/neuters but can use different ploys) verify the sender. Here are important differences. If you&#8217;ve received a request from the scam account:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arfp-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arfpnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arfpnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arfpnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arfpnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arfpnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.arfpnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6031,"href":"https:\/\/www.arfpnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6030\/revisions\/6031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arfpnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arfpnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arfpnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}