{"id":4801,"date":"2020-01-16T15:51:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T15:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2020-01-16T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T15:52:39","slug":"warning-regarding-telephone-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/2020\/01\/warning-regarding-telephone-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning Regarding Telephone Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2019\/12\/images.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4773\" src=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2019\/12\/images.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a>Following an incident in Dunbar whereby a lady has been scammed out of a five figure sum, Police are reminding people to be extra vigilant when they receive unexpected telephone calls, particularly from people claiming to be from their bank.<\/p>\n<p>Never assume a phone call is authentic just because someone knows your basic details for example your name and address. If something feels wrong, then it\u2019s usually right to question it.<\/p>\n<p>Your bank or Police will never contact you by telephone asking you to move money or hand over information about your account.<\/p>\n<p>Do not divulge personal information over the phone unless you initiate the call &#8211; If in doubt terminate the call.<\/p>\n<p>Further info can be found at &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotland.police.uk\/keep-safe\/personal-safety\/identity-theft-fraud-and-scams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.scotland.police.uk\/keep-safe\/personal-safety\/identity-theft-fraud-and-scams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an incident in Dunbar whereby a lady has been scammed out of a five figure sum, Police are reminding people to be extra vigilant when they receive unexpected telephone calls, particularly from people claiming to be from their bank. Never assume a phone call is authentic just because someone knows your basic details for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/2020\/01\/warning-regarding-telephone-scams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Warning Regarding Telephone Scams&#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":[36,334,132,360],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dunbar","tag-neighbourhood-watch-scotland","tag-police-scotland","tag-telephone-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","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=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4803,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/4803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}