{"id":3962,"date":"2024-06-28T05:11:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T05:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2024-06-28T05:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T05:11:37","slug":"mclennan-county-sheriffs-office-warns-of-new-phone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/phone-scam\/mclennan-county-sheriffs-office-warns-of-new-phone-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"McLennan County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Warns of New Phone Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The McLennan County Sheriff\u2019s Office is alerting residents to a new phone scam circulating in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scammers are calling residents and falsely claiming to be Sheriff\u2019s deputies, providing a phone number not associated with the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office emphasizes that neither they nor any other law enforcement agency will ask for or demand payment for fines or warrants over the phone. Additionally, no one will request gift cards or money to prevent an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McLennan County Sheriff\u2019s Office is alerting residents to a new phone scam circulating in the area. Scammers are calling residents and falsely claiming to be Sheriff\u2019s deputies, providing a phone number not associated with the Sheriff\u2019s Office. The Sheriff\u2019s Office emphasizes that neither they nor any other law enforcement agency will ask for or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phone-scam","tag-scam-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3964,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}