{"id":662705,"date":"2010-02-12T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001904"},"modified":"2010-02-11T22:29:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:29:44","slug":"no-mcdonalds-is-not-trying-to-give-you-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/662705","title":{"rendered":"No, McDonald&#8217;s Is Not Trying To Give You $5K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/check-thumb-504x221-36944.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>A friend who works for Wells Fargo passed this scam check along, from a company calling itself &#8220;McDonalds French Fry Trust.&#8221; The check is accompanied by a letter that asks victims to pay $945 to the sender as a commission after the check is cashed.<\/p>\n<p>What would likely happen if you went through with the plan, one imagines, is that you&#8217;d deposit the check, get stung with a bad check fee and lose the $945 on top of it.<\/p>\n<p>Also, folks, remember the Hamburgler is not the wallet inspector. That would be Grimace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend who works for Wells Fargo passed this scam check along, from a company calling itself &#8220;McDonalds French Fry Trust.&#8221; The check is accompanied by a letter that asks victims to pay $945 to the sender as a commission after the check is cashed. What would likely happen if you went through with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"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-662705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MoN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662705","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\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}