{"id":363687,"date":"2015-06-12T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T14:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=363687"},"modified":"2015-06-13T15:48:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:48:01","slug":"officials-warn-of-a-scam-in-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=363687","title":{"rendered":"Officials Warn of a Scam in East Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/Harrison-County-Sheriffs-Department.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/Harrison-County-Sheriffs-Department-145x150.jpg\" alt=\"Harrison-County-Sheriffs-Department\" width=\"145\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-363688\" \/><\/a>HARRISON COUNTY &#8212; An old scam making the rounds again has led to an elderly East Texas man losing a huge fortune. It&#8217;s called the Jamaican or New York lottery scam &#8212; the one where they call people and ask them to get pre-paid debit cards to insure the delivery of their millions. A Harrison County man fell for it to the tune of $500,000. Lieutenant Jay Webb says the callers start out nice, then get belligerent, even threatening harm to you and your family. They&#8217;re convincing because of all the information they have. Another victim in the area lost $5,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISON COUNTY &#8212; An old scam making the rounds again has led to an elderly East Texas man losing a huge fortune. It&#8217;s called the Jamaican or New York lottery scam &#8212; the one where they call people and ask them to get pre-paid debit cards to insure the delivery of their millions. A Harrison &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=363687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials Warn of a Scam in East Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":363688,"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-363687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 21:36:53","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\/363687","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=363687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363998,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363687\/revisions\/363998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/363688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}