{"id":431002,"date":"2010-03-15T13:41:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003266"},"modified":"2010-03-15T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:42:24","slug":"faux-hawked-wells-fargo-manager-allegedly-embezzled-900000-from-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/431002","title":{"rendered":"Faux-Hawked Wells Fargo Manager Allegedly Embezzled $900,000+ From Elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/johntran-thumb-165x206-38153.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>An ex-Wells Fargo bank manager is accused of embezzling more than $900,000 from customers, most of whom were frail and elderly. <\/p>\n<p>John Tran, 37, would visit customers&#8217; homes talk them into making investments, then get their cashier checks directed to himself. Police were tipped off after a customer&#8217;s daughter visited the bank asking questions about why bank representatives were showing up on their doorstep and why the investments hadn&#8217;t appeared in her mother&#8217;s account.<\/p>\n<p>This is why you should stay in touch with elderly family about what they are doing with their finances, and why you should never give any money to anyone with a faux-hawk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/03\/12\/BASQ1CEJD6.DTL\">Ex-bank manager accused of bilking people<\/a> [SF Gate] <em>(Thanks to Shawna!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ex-Wells Fargo bank manager is accused of embezzling more than $900,000 from customers, most of whom were frail and elderly. John Tran, 37, would visit customers&#8217; homes talk them into making investments, then get their cashier checks directed to himself. Police were tipped off after a customer&#8217;s daughter visited the bank asking questions about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}