{"id":192651,"date":"2025-05-09T12:13:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=192651"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:13:36","slug":"beware-of-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/05\/09\/beware-of-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of scam&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scam-hanger-5-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scam-hanger-5-2025.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Scam-hanger-5-2025-428x600.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office is warning residents of a new scam making the rounds. If you find a notice like this on your door, do not call the toll-free number listed on the card. It is a scam to obtain your personal information. Instead, contact the Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 419.238.3866 to report it. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office is warning residents of a new scam making the rounds. If you find a notice like this on your door, do not call the toll-free number listed on the card. It is a scam to obtain your personal information. Instead, contact the Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 419.238.3866 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 13:21:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192653,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192651\/revisions\/192653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}