{"id":2869,"date":"2018-10-03T14:34:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T13:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2018-10-03T14:34:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T13:34:27","slug":"scam-mail-dont-be-fooled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/2018\/10\/scam-mail-dont-be-fooled\/","title":{"rendered":"SCAM MAIL, DON&#8217;T BE FOOLED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2018\/10\/Scam-mail18092018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2868\" src=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2018\/10\/Scam-mail18092018-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/files\/2018\/10\/Scam-mail18092018-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/files\/2018\/10\/Scam-mail18092018-768x1095.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/files\/2018\/10\/Scam-mail18092018-718x1024.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Royal mail would like to raise awareness of SCAM MAIL in our community. Royal Mail never knowingly delivers scam mail. They understand the distress that it can cause when received. This type of mail is ILLEGAL and targets the most VULNERABLE in society.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, scam mail involves professional fraudsters sending convincing letters that are designed to trick people out of money and other valuables. It includes bogus competitions and fake draws. It mostly originates from overseas and is unfortunately hard to detect.<\/p>\n<p>Should you be concerned that someone you know is in receipt of scam mail, please contact Royal Mail by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Writing to Royal Mail at FREEPOST SCAM MAIL, enclosing any items that are suspected of being scam mail<\/li>\n<li>Calling Royal Mail Scam Mail Helpline on 0800 0113 466<\/li>\n<li>Emailing scam.mail@royalmail.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To view poster click <a href=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2018\/10\/Scam-mail18092018.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal mail would like to raise awareness of SCAM MAIL in our community. Royal Mail never knowingly delivers scam mail. They understand the distress that it can cause when received. This type of mail is ILLEGAL and targets the most VULNERABLE in society. Typically, scam mail involves professional fraudsters sending convincing letters that are designed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/2018\/10\/scam-mail-dont-be-fooled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SCAM MAIL, DON&#8217;T BE FOOLED&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[264,263],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-royal-mail","tag-scam-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}