{"id":307878,"date":"2014-07-18T16:53:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T21:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=307878"},"modified":"2014-07-21T09:36:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T14:36:55","slug":"swepco-scam-hits-longview-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=307878","title":{"rendered":"SWEPCO Scam Hits Longview Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/07\/thumb_police-longview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/07\/thumb_police-longview-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_police-longview\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-307879\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; Longview police have been receiving calls about a new scam in the area. Scammers have made contact with businesses and citizens locally.  Police warn you not to fall victim to this.  This scam involves a telephone call in which the caller claims to represent SWEPCO or its parent company, AEP.  The customer is told that a certain amount of money must be paid immediately or electric service will be shut off.  The scammer usually suggests that the customer purchase a prepaid money card and then provides instructions for using that card to pay the amount supposedly due on the account. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The Longview Police Department along with SWEPCO advises all customers to be aware of the scam.  Information on legitimate options for paying bills is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.SWEPCO.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.SWEPCO.com<\/a> or by calling the company\u2019s Customer Solutions Center at 1-800-216-3523.   Longview police remind citizens to be aware of scam artists.  Any time you get a call or email it is important to verify information before sending any amount of money.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Longview police have been receiving calls about a new scam in the area. Scammers have made contact with businesses and citizens locally. Police warn you not to fall victim to this. This scam involves a telephone call in which the caller claims to represent SWEPCO or its parent company, AEP. The customer is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=307878\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SWEPCO Scam Hits Longview Area<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 13:29:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307878","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307883,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307878\/revisions\/307883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}