{"id":586249,"date":"2017-02-09T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=586249"},"modified":"2017-02-10T18:59:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T00:59:01","slug":"repackaging-scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=586249","title":{"rendered":"Repackaging Scam Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/scam-alert2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/scam-alert2-150x121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"121\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-405822\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Department is alerting residents to a work at home scam. The scam, referred to as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Repackaging,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a job found online, forwarding packages that can appear to be legitimate.  However, often the merchandise that would be shipped to your residence is paid for with stolen credit card numbers. The scam involves you placing a new shipping label on the box and mailing it to another person, who will then sell the merchandise online. The sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s department says the profits then go to an organized crime group. The person who does the repackaging will soon have detectives contacting them to investigate the illegal activities and will end up not getting paid. If you have any questions about this, contact the Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office at 903-566-6600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Department is alerting residents to a work at home scam. The scam, referred to as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Repackaging,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a job found online, forwarding packages that can appear to be legitimate. However, often the merchandise that would be shipped to your residence is paid for with stolen credit card numbers. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=586249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Repackaging Scam Alert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":405822,"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-586249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 14:04:13","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\/586249","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=586249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586250,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586249\/revisions\/586250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/405822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}