{"id":55740,"date":"2014-10-01T20:45:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T01:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=55740"},"modified":"2014-10-02T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:24:50","slug":"irs-scam-warning-from-jpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=55740","title":{"rendered":"IRS Scam warning from JPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JamestownPolice_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37363\" alt=\"JamestownPolice_2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JamestownPolice_2-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JamestownPolice_2-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JamestownPolice_2-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JamestownPolice_2.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown Police is informing residents that it has received complaints by the public about a phone \u00a0scam, where a male voice with an Indian accent claims he&#8217;s from the United States IRS, saying the intended victim is being audited and must pay a certain amount of money.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0two complaints to Jamestown Police, the caller requested $2,500, to be wired to the IRS, to keep police from responding and arresting the intended victim.<\/p>\n<p>In at least one of the complaints the caller said to the intended victim, &#8220;The police are on ther way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Police Chief, Scott Edinger says, do not wire cash to anyone you don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 Most scams to date involve wiring money \u00a0to individuals unknown by intended victims.<\/p>\n<p>He adds, do not give out personal information over the phone to anyone\u00a0you don&#8217;t know, or can not verify the identity of.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not sure, contact local law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown Police is informing residents that it has received complaints by the public about a phone \u00a0scam, where a male voice with an Indian accent claims he&#8217;s from the United States IRS, saying the intended victim is being audited and must pay a certain amount of money. In\u00a0two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55740","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=55740"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55777,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55740\/revisions\/55777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}