{"id":34961,"date":"2013-02-14T02:41:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T07:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=34961"},"modified":"2013-02-14T02:41:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T07:41:44","slug":"honor-flight-officials-report-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/02\/14\/honor-flight-officials-report-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor Flight officials report scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Information submitted<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TOLEDO &#8212; Honor Flight of Northwest Ohio is reporting a scam targeted at area military veterans.<\/p>\n<p>According to the organization, there have been reports that someone is calling World War II veterans in\u00a0northwest Ohio and telling them that they have been selected for a Northwest Ohio\u00a0Honor Flight, and then asking for the veterans\u2019 credit card information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Honor-Flight-of-Northwest-Ohio-logo-10-2012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29561\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Honor-Flight-of-Northwest-Ohio-logo-10-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a>Honor Flight Northwest Ohio flights are entirely free of charge to veterans and that includes World War II veterans, Korean War veterans, and all other veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Honor Flight Northwest Ohio board members (and all other people associated with Honor Flight Northwest Ohio) would <em>never<\/em> ask for credit card information (over the phone, in an email message, or in person).<\/p>\n<p>Those who experience a solicitation in the name of Honor Flight or Honor Flight Northwest Ohio should contact the organization immediately at 419.410.7729 or by email at <a href=\"mailto:hfnwo@bex.net\">hfnwo@bex.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on Honor Flight Northwest Ohio, go to the following website: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honorflightnwo.org\/.\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.honorflightnwo.org\/<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information submitted TOLEDO &#8212; Honor Flight of Northwest Ohio is reporting a scam targeted at area military veterans. According to the organization, there have been reports that someone is calling World War II veterans in\u00a0northwest Ohio and telling them that they have been selected for a Northwest Ohio\u00a0Honor Flight, and then asking for the veterans\u2019 [&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-34961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 17:18:33","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\/34961","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=34961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}