{"id":33353,"date":"2023-02-06T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=33353"},"modified":"2023-02-06T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T15:02:07","slug":"country-stars-fight-back-against-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/02\/country-stars-fight-back-against-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Stars Fight Back Against Scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Garth Brooks hits you up on Instagram and asks for $500 in iTunes gift cards, it\u2019s probably a scam.<\/p>\n<p>Three different country stars just had to speak up about scammers impersonating them online: Trace Adkins, Hank Williams Jr., and Dolly Parton.<\/p>\n<p>Trace tweeted out a video to tell fans that @TraceAdkins is the only handle he uses on social media. He felt he had to after some jerk posing as him tried to scam a guy on Facebook.\u00a0 The guy&#8217;s been trying to raise money on GoFundMe for his dog&#8217;s back surgery. The scammer pretended to be Trace, and offered him $5,000 . . . but said he needed the guy to transfer HIM $200 first. Thankfully, he didn&#8217;t fall for it.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1620826595429847041&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hank Williams Jr. posted on Instagram the same day after noticing a bunch of &#8220;fake Hanks&#8221; commenting on his posts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Don\u2019t be fooled into accepting friend requests or replying to messages from fake Hanks. We will never ask you for personal details or money.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CoIpIv1tM-6\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Dolly Parton&#8217;s team also posted on Wednesday to clarify that she&#8217;s not out there hawking CBD gummies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Dolly Parton is not affiliated with, has not endorsed, and is not associated with any kind of keto or CBD gummy product. She&#8217;s more the cake, cookie, and cornbread type.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CoI8whfOmQ1\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Garth Brooks hits you up on Instagram and asks for $500 in iTunes gift cards, it\u2019s probably a scam.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":31572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[83,2058,331],"class_list":["post-33353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dolly-parton","tag-hank-williams-jr","tag-trace-adkins"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 03:37:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/02\/country-stars-fight-back-against-scammers\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33354,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33353\/revisions\/33354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}