{"id":524,"date":"2022-01-03T08:15:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T13:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/?p=524"},"modified":"2022-01-03T08:15:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T13:15:43","slug":"social-security-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/2022\/01\/03\/social-security-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sugarcreek Borough Police would like to notify residents that with tax season coming upon us there will likely be an increase in scam and fraud calls.<\/p>\n<p>Sugarcreek Police would like to remind residents that the Social Security Administration (SSA) does not contact individuals via phone or email. SSA does not accept gift cards, Apple Pay, I-Tunes gift cards, or gift cards as methods of payment. This is a sure sign of a scam.<\/p>\n<p>SSA contacts individuals via certified mail.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive a scam phone call or email; SSA has released a website so that you can report the attempted scam\/fraud quickly. The website is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oig.ssa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OIG.SSA.GOV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you believe that someone is or has tried to scam you regarding your social security number, you are urged to report the contact by using the website listed above.<\/p>\n<p>Please remember to guard you personal information and do not give it out to someone you cannot verify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugarcreek Borough Police would like to notify residents that with tax season coming upon us there will likely be an[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Social Security Scam - Borough of Sugarcreek Press Releases","description":"Sugarcreek Borough Police would like to notify residents that with tax season coming upon us there will likely be an increase in scam and fraud calls. Sugarcree"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}