{"id":658330,"date":"2010-02-08T17:47:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001520"},"modified":"2010-02-08T17:50:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:50:37","slug":"septuagenarian-couple-scammed-inns-and-hotels-for-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/658330","title":{"rendered":"Septuagenarian Couple Scammed Inns And Hotels For Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/020810-005-b%26b-thumb-240x190-36777.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>The next time you stay at a bed and breakfast and you see a kindly old couple lingering in the common room after breakfast, be suspicious! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/02\/07\/elderly_couple_went_on_alleged_swindling_spree\/?page=full\">The Wolffs have been scamming<\/a> inns, hotels, rented homes, and bed &#038; breakfasts since 2005, reports the Boston Globe. They offer to pay via check, and until recently&#8211;when they stayed in one place so long that they were still around when the check bounced&#8211;nobody ever thought they might be pulling a fast one.  They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/01\/12\/perfect_guests_defrauded_series_of_mass_innkeepers_police_say\/?page=full\">due in court<\/a> this month for defrauding several inns over the past summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/02\/07\/elderly_couple_went_on_alleged_swindling_spree\/?page=full\">&#8220;The Wolffs at the door&#8221;<\/a> [Boston.com]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you stay at a bed and breakfast and you see a kindly old couple lingering in the common room after breakfast, be suspicious! The Wolffs have been scamming inns, hotels, rented homes, and bed &#038; breakfasts since 2005, reports the Boston Globe. They offer to pay via check, and until recently&#8211;when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Lge","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}