-By Warner Todd Huston
Talk about TV rage, police in Augusta, Georgia are looking for a man making threatening phone calls to WJBF TV because he didn’t like a reporter’s story, reports say.
Apparently WJBF reporter Michael Miller made someone upset enough to call the station several times threatening to shoot the reporter “in the face” with a shotgun. The caller also threatened to kill the other people at the station, too. Joe Biden approves of the weapon choice, anyway.
Reporter Miller told police he had just finished a story on Green Dot scams when the calls came in. A Green Dot MoneyPak card is a re-loadable cash card that many people who don’t have bank accounts use to pay bills. There are many cards like this on the market. Major credit card companies also have such re-loadable cards and all can be bought at convenience stores, grocery stores, and department stores like Walmart.
Apparently, Green Dot scams are a new way for con men to rip people off. In one version of the scam, a person receives a call from a someone posing as a bill collector. This scammer will tell the victim that he owes them money and if he doesn’t pay he will be taken to court or be arrested. The scammer then convinces the victim to purchase a Green Dot cash card at a local store and tell them the redemption information so the card can be drained of cash.
Reporter Miller (the guy who looks like he’s about 14-years-old in that station bio photo above) and the TV station are cooperating with Augusta police.
I guess this viewer was mad as hell and wasn’t going to take it any more. But it gave us a chance to highlight Green Dot card scams, I guess. What do you think?
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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