{"id":11640,"date":"2011-11-07T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=11640"},"modified":"2011-11-07T18:44:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T22:44:37","slug":"dependable-locksmith-back-in-the-business-of-deceit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/dependable-locksmith-back-in-the-business-of-deceit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dependable Locksmith Back in The Business of Deceit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/news\/action-9-exposes-national-locksmith-network\/nFWNL\/#comments\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-11641\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-11-07 at 5.25.02 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-07-at-5.25.02-PM-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-07-at-5.25.02-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-07-at-5.25.02-PM.png 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I was surprised <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/05\/federal-bust-of-dependable-locksmith-in-florida-strikes-at-heart-of-locksmith-scams\/#comment-558754\">to learn<\/a>\u00a0that Dependable Locksmith, <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/05\/federal-bust-of-dependable-locksmith-in-florida-strikes-at-heart-of-locksmith-scams\/\">raided<\/a>\u00a0in late 2009 by the Feds\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/state-attorney-general-to-att-remove-illegal-locksmith-listings-at-yellowpagescom\/\">sued<\/a>\u00a0by the attorney general in Missouri earlier that year , was still in business and still using their &#8220;standard&#8221; business model of bait and switch. It does not speak well of our regulatory or legal environment that known crooks and charlatans with a profile like theirs could continue to operate in the exact same way.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear to me how folks in Orlando are finding them, that wasn&#8217;t made clear in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/news\/action-9-exposes-national-locksmith-network\/nFWNL\/#comments\">Action 9 story<\/a>, but it doesn&#8217;t appear to be Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to learn\u00a0that Dependable Locksmith, raided\u00a0in late 2009 by the Feds\u00a0and sued\u00a0by the attorney general in Missouri earlier that year , was still in business and still using their &#8220;standard&#8221; business model of bait and switch. It does not speak well of our regulatory or legal environment that known crooks and charlatans with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11643,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640\/revisions\/11643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}