{"id":104913,"date":"2016-07-28T14:23:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T19:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=104913"},"modified":"2016-07-30T17:52:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T22:52:41","slug":"dot-warns-of-phone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=104913","title":{"rendered":"Dept of Transportation warns of phone scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11701\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/scamalert1-300x202.png\" alt=\"scamalert1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/scamalert1-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/scamalert1-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/scamalert1.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) is alerting North Dakota residents about fraudulent telephone calls claiming to be from representatives of the Motor Vehicle Division. Residents have reported receiving telephone calls that their registrations are overdue followed by instructions on how to make a payment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NDDOT does NOT make this type of phone call about Motor Vehicle registrations. This is a scam, designed to trick the recipient into giving out information and payment to a scam artist. The NDDOT urges North Dakotans to hang up on this type of phone calls. Residents who have questions about their vehicle registrations or these calls should contact the NDDOT at (701) 328-2725 or email their questions to the NDDOT email address: <u><a href=\"mailto:mv@nd.gov\">mv@nd.gov<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>General information about common consumer scams is available on the Attorney General\u2019s website, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ag.nd.gov\/CPAT\/CommonScams.htm\">http:\/\/www.ag.nd.gov\/CPAT\/CommonScams.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) is alerting North Dakota residents about fraudulent telephone calls claiming to be from representatives of the Motor Vehicle Division. Residents have reported receiving telephone calls that their registrations are overdue followed by instructions on how to make a payment. &nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104999,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104913\/revisions\/104999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}