{"id":5312,"date":"2013-06-03T12:37:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T19:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-police-warn-of-phone-call-scam-to-obtain-credit-card-numbers\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T22:20:27","slug":"kent-police-warn-of-phone-call-scam-to-obtain-credit-card-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-warn-of-phone-call-scam-to-obtain-credit-card-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Police warn of phone call scam to obtain credit card numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Kent Police sent out a notice Monday about a phone calling scam by someone who claims to be a representative of the city water department in an effort to obtain credit card numbers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The person threatened to cut off water service if a credit card number was not provided to the caller, according to police. Police say that is not a threat any utility provider would make.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If you receive such a call, ask the caller for their name and a number to call back. Then contact your utility company customer service number that can be found on your bill or on the utility&#8217;s website to make sure your account is fine and alert them about the scam.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Police sent out a notice Monday about a phone calling scam by someone who claims to be a representative of the city water department in an effort to obtain credit card numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}