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PALESTINE \u2014 The Palestine Police Department is warning the community to be aware of scammers that are posing as Palestine Assistant Chief of Police Richard Johnson.<\/p>\nPALESTINE \u2014 The Palestine Police Department is warning the community to be aware of scammers that are posing as Palestine Assistant Chief of Police Richard Johnson.<\/p>\n
Our news partner KETK is reporting that the scammers are using shady tactics and gave several methods to avoid being scammed:<\/p>\n
The Palestine Police Department will never contact people to request their personal banking information.
\n The only time the department may ask for banking information is when a victim of fraud is filing a report.
\n Those asked to make a payment with gift cards or Bitcoin are most likely getting scammed.
\n Never divulge personal information online or over the phone.
\n Always verify the source and remember, a lot of personal information can be researched online and used against you.
\n Be cautious of house rental listings on social media. For reliable information, contact a local realtor.
\n A good rule to remember is if something seems too good to be true, it probably isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Those who believe they have been targeted by a scam can contact the Palestine Police Department at 903-729-2254. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PALESTINE \u2014 The Palestine Police Department is warning the community to be aware of scammers that are posing as Palestine Assistant Chief of Police Richard Johnson. Our news partner KETK is reporting that the scammers are using shady tactics and gave several methods to avoid being scammed: The Palestine Police Department will never contact people … Continue reading Palestine PD warns of scammers posing as police chief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1446006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/12\/scam-alert-200x113.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 20:17:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/12\/scam-alert-200x113.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445809"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446314,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445809\/revisions\/1446314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1446006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}