{"id":4179,"date":"2013-02-28T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2013-02-27T14:43:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T19:43:59","slug":"rx-for-seniors-to-avoid-ills-of-scam-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=4179","title":{"rendered":"Rx for seniors to avoid ills of scam artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Coatesville Area NAACP hosting educational workshop<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/scpu_flyer_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4180\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"scpu_flyer_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/scpu_flyer_sm-229x300.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/scpu_flyer_sm-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/scpu_flyer_sm.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a>You don\u2019t have to be a member of law-enforcement to realize that senior citizens are often targeted by criminals, whether someone unscrupulous is impersonating a loved one and pleading to have money wired to them or soliciting a down payment for a new roof that will never materialize.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to reduce this victimization, the Coatesville Area NAACP is hosting a free Senior Financial Education Workshop on Wednesday at 10 a.m. It will be held at the Greater Deliverance Church<b>, <\/b>located at\u00a0800 S. First Ave.,\u00a0Coatesville, 19320.<\/p>\n<p>Information for the workshop will be presented by the Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s office, as part of their Senior Crime Prevention University. \u00a0The aim is to educate seniors and prevent them from being victims to scams and con artists.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to RSVP, contact the Coatesville Area NAACP at <a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvillenaacp.org\/?page_id=61\">info@coatesvillenaacp.org<\/a> or \u00a0(484) 378-0950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coatesville Area NAACP hosting educational workshop You don\u2019t have to be a member of law-enforcement to realize that senior citizens are often targeted by criminals, whether someone unscrupulous is impersonating a loved one and pleading to have money wired to them or soliciting a down payment for a new roof that will never materialize. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,172],"tags":[24,1328,1630,460,1629],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-community","category-events","tag-coatesville","tag-coatesville-area-naacp","tag-greater-deliverance-church","tag-pennsylvania-attorney-generals-office","tag-senior-crime-prevention-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}