{"id":36890,"date":"2015-09-08T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T16:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=36890"},"modified":"2015-09-08T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T16:34:58","slug":"scammers-dressing-as-nuns-demand-donations-for-local-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/09\/scammers-dressing-as-nuns-demand-donations-for-local-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammers Dressing As Nuns <br>Demand Donations For Local Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36891\" title=\"St. Raphael\u2019s Church\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/St.-Raphael\u2019s-Church-300x222.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/St.-Raphael\u2019s-Church-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/St.-Raphael\u2019s-Church.png 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A Lehigh Acres church is warning the community about a major Nun scam.<\/p>\n<p>Two women, dressed as nuns, are knocking on doors aggressively asking for money. They say they\u2019re looking for donations for St. Raphael\u2019s Catholic Church, but the church says it\u2019s all a scam.<\/p>\n<p>Parishioners were warned at Saturday night\u2019s mass about the scam. The two women are believed to be in their early 20s, dressed\u00a0as nuns and claiming to be sent by the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Victims of the scammers tell church officials the women are very persistent, even walking in to their living rooms demanding cash, credit card number and even offering to drive people to the ATM to withdraw money.<\/p>\n<p>I just feel that whoever is doing that is taking advantage of the people, the parishioners at St. Raphael\u2019s. It just depicts how desperate people are in the world, in our society, that they will go and try to use the Catholic Church to use other people, said Earl Smith a lector and Eucharistic minister at area parishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh Acres church is warning the community about a major Nun scam. Two women, dressed as nuns, are knocking on doors aggressively asking for money. They say they\u2019re looking&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}