{"id":72802,"date":"2025-03-22T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T12:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=72802"},"modified":"2025-03-22T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T12:33:18","slug":"ssm-police-services-fraud-scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/ssm-police-services-fraud-scam-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM Police Services &#8211; Fraud\/Scam Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SSM-Police-Services.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-72803\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SSM-Police-Services-300x159.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SSM-Police-Services-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SSM-Police-Services.png 556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service is advising the community of a potential fraud\/scam in which scammers claiming to be a utility company call victims on the phone and advise they will be coming to their home to conduct free work.<\/p>\n<p>How to Protect Yourself:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hang up and call the company directly using the phone number found on your bills<\/li>\n<li>Never share personal or payment information with unsolicited callers<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t let strangers into your home<\/li>\n<li>Report fraud to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service is advising the community of a potential fraud\/scam in which scammers claiming to be a utility company call victims on the phone and advise &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 07:29:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72804,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72802\/revisions\/72804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}