{"id":164,"date":"2012-11-06T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=164"},"modified":"2012-11-05T22:21:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T03:21:29","slug":"pennies-from-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2012\/11\/pennies-from-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennies From Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_md1q7hHLtS1qcnn8do1_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/>I really get stunned on how conmen pull their scams off. I don&#8217;t get it how people fall for their tricks.<\/p>\n<p>But they keep falling. For example some guy in Spain said he could get money from the sky, and people believed him <a title=\"Detienen por estafa a un &quot;brujo&quot; que dec\u00eda &quot;bajar dinero del cielo&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elespectador.com\/noticias\/actualidad\/articulo-385265-detienen-estafa-un-brujo-decia-bajar-dinero-del-cielo\">and <em>paid<\/em> him<\/a>\u00a0to do that for them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Spanish Civil Guard arrested a man who convinced three local residents of Crevillent, in southeastern Spain, that he had the power of &#8220;getting down\u00a0money from sky&#8221; and who conned more than 12,000 euros (almost US $ 15,400).<\/p>\n<p>The now arrested 39-year-old from Senegal, appeared before his victims as a &#8220;sorcerer&#8221; possessor of the gift of getting money &#8220;from sky&#8221;, according to sources the armed institute in a press release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How did that work? He could make money rain and he charged them? Didn&#8217;t that sound a bit strange?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really get stunned on how conmen pull their scams off. I don&#8217;t get it how people fall for their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,18,16],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-80","tag-charlatan","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}