{"id":52003,"date":"2013-11-29T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=52003"},"modified":"2013-11-29T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T13:43:24","slug":"potential-telephone-scam-alert-targets-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=52003","title":{"rendered":"Potential Telephone Scam Alert Targets Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mad-Co-Sheriffs-Dept.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-41578\" alt=\"Mad Co Sheriff's Dept\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mad-Co-Sheriffs-Dept-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Submitted by John Ball, Madison County Undersheriff<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Wampsville, NY \u2013 Nov. 27, 2013) The Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office has been advised that through a telephone call, a male is calling seniors indicating he is their grandson and is in some type of trouble, and needs money. He then says he has to go and will call right back, which he does.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In one case, the call recipient asked a question that only the grandson could answer, and the caller immediately disconnected when challenged.<\/p>\n<p>There is no indication of the number originating the possible scam call, or the person(s) responsible for it.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Allen Riley reminds area residents to be aware of this type of this ongoing scam and never give out any personal information over the phone or internet if you are not 100 percent sure of who you are communicating with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by John Ball, Madison County Undersheriff (Wampsville, NY \u2013 Nov. 27, 2013) The Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office has been advised that through a telephone call, a male is calling seniors indicating he is their grandson and is in some type of trouble, and needs money. He then says he has to go and will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}