{"id":127988,"date":"2017-08-29T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T16:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=127988"},"modified":"2017-08-29T11:38:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T16:38:48","slug":"phone-scammer-claims-to-be-computer-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=127988","title":{"rendered":"Phone scammer claims to be computer tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32757\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PHONE_SCAM-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PHONE_SCAM-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PHONE_SCAM-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PHONE_SCAM.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 A number of Valley City, New Rockford, and Bismarck residents, have received what are scam phone calls, claiming to be representatives from Microsoft or Windows.<br \/>\nThe caller claims to be \u00a0a computer tech \u00a0and then with your permission remotely accesses your computer and then proceeds to lock it up. That\u2019s followed by asking for a payment to unlock the computer.<\/p>\n<p>If your phone\u2019s caller ID shows the number 171-988-7255 hang up and report it to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 A number of Valley City, New Rockford, and Bismarck residents, have received what are scam phone calls, claiming to be representatives from Microsoft or Windows. The caller claims to be \u00a0a computer tech \u00a0and then with your permission remotely accesses your computer and then proceeds to lock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127990,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127988\/revisions\/127990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}