{"id":128327,"date":"2024-03-12T18:30:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T22:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=128327"},"modified":"2024-03-12T18:30:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T22:30:47","slug":"mackenzie-invites-seniors-to-cam-jam-on-march-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=128327","title":{"rendered":"Mackenzie Invites Seniors to \u2018$cam Jam\u2019 on March 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW TRIPOLI \u2013\u00a0 <\/strong>In his continuing effort to educate older residents about the latest scams and how to protect themselves, Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Lehigh) is co-hosting a \u201c$cam Jam\u201d event on Thursday, March 28, in Trexlertown. The free event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at Good Will Fire Company No. 1, 7723 Hamilton Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeniors are frequent targets of these scammers, who come up with new ways to steal their hard-earned money all the time,\u201d said Mackenzie. \u201c$cam Jam is a fun way to learn how to avoid becoming a victim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie is teaming up with the Pennsylvania\u00a0Department of Banking and Securities, the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office, and AARP\u00a0\u00a0to present the event, which\u00a0will feature Fraud Bingo, an interactive way to learn about common scams and other schemes. Light refreshments will be offered.<\/p>\n<p>Reservations are required and can be made online at\u00a0<em>RepMackenzie.com\/events\u00a0<\/em>or by calling Mackenzie\u2019s Northwestern Lehigh office at 610-760-7082.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW TRIPOLI \u2013\u00a0 In his continuing effort to educate older residents about the latest scams and how to protect themselves, Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Lehigh) is co-hosting a \u201c$cam Jam\u201d event &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=128327\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mackenzie Invites Seniors to \u2018$cam Jam\u2019 on March 28<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/rep-ryan-187.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}