{"id":141,"date":"2022-08-22T14:32:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=141"},"modified":"2022-08-22T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:10:51","slug":"baby-grand-piano-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2022\/08\/22\/baby-grand-piano-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baby Grand Piano Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"piano<\/p>\n

We\u2019re hearing there\u2019s been an increase in the volume of free piano scams circulating, especially by email.<\/p>\n

What to look for<\/h3>\n

You\u2019ll get an email from a stranger \u201a\u00a0usually someone with a common name, like \u201cSarah\u201d or \u201cMary\u201d.\u00a0The email states someone died and that they would like to find a good home for the deceased piano, a used Yamaha baby grand, specifically a G2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hi,<\/em><\/p>\n

Trust you are well?<\/p>\n

I want to give away my late husband’s Yamaha baby grand piano to a passionate instrument lover, so please let me know if you will take it or have someone who will care for it.<\/p>\n

Regards,<\/p>\n

Sarah Colton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The catch\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u2026You pay the shipping cost.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sounds almost too good to be true, right?<\/p>\n

The thing is, you will never receive a piano.<\/p>\n

The goal is to get you to send the scammers a payment using non-refundable money orders, or gift cards. After that, you will never hear from them again.<\/p>\n

Need more convincing? Here\u2019s a first-hand account<\/a> of what happened to this poor lady.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s been an increase in the volume of free piano scams circulating, especially by email. He’s how you can protect yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/PIANO-scam.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}