{"id":82705,"date":"2016-12-17T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T12:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=82705"},"modified":"2016-12-17T07:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T12:45:04","slug":"ppec-makes-members-aware-of-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/12\/17\/ppec-makes-members-aware-of-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"PPEC makes members aware of scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PAULDING &#8212; Paulding Putnam Electric Co-op (PPEC) wants area residents to be aware of a few scams that have surfaced in the area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-82352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PPEC-logo-12-2-16.jpg\" alt=\"ppec-logo-12-2-16\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" \/>The first incident occurred in the Monroeville, Indiana, area where a person pretending to be a PPEC worker requested payment for tree trimming services.\u00a0Unfortunately, an elderly person ended up making a payment of $150.\u00a0PPEC wants to remind residents it does not charge for tree trimming services.<\/p>\n<p>The second instance happened near Wetzel, where a person pretended to be a PPEC contractor and asked to come into a residence. This person had a West Virginia license plate. Luckily, the homeowner refused to allow entrance to the person and called PPEC to verify the person was a PPEC worker.<\/p>\n<p>PPEC wants its members to know that, if they have suspicions about a person, please do not hesitate to call the office and verify. PPEC\u2019s number is 800.686.2357. However, if PPEC members feel at all in danger, they should contact police first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information PAULDING &#8212; Paulding Putnam Electric Co-op (PPEC) wants area residents to be aware of a few scams that have surfaced in the area. The first incident occurred in the Monroeville, Indiana, area where a person pretending to be a PPEC worker requested payment for tree trimming services.\u00a0Unfortunately, an elderly person ended up making [&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-82705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 09:19:27","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\/82705","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=82705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}