{"id":661447,"date":"2017-10-13T10:42:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T15:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=661447"},"modified":"2017-10-15T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T20:48:15","slug":"tyler-police-warn-of-computer-related-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=661447","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Police Warn of Computer-Related Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER — The Tyler Police Department is putting out the word on a scam that has recently emerged. Police say several people reported a call from a person claiming to be with Microsoft Computers. The caller claims to need the call recipient’s computer IP address to determine if the computer has reported viruses that have been detected. The caller will then pretend to be looking into the problem and inform you that you have numerous computer issues. Then comes a request for a credit card number that purportedly allows the caller to add virus protection — and clean up viruses that don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exist. The caller will then start charging on your credit card while keeping you on the phone with the phony problem.<\/p>\n

Warning: <\/p>\n

1) Do not give your credit card information to an unknown person that has contacted you.
\n2) Do not give anyone access to your computer that would allow them to access private information on it.
\n3) Ask for a call back number to allow you to check into the story that they have given to you.
\n4) This scam is primarily targeting elderly persons who may not think to question the motive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — The Tyler Police Department is putting out the word on a scam that has recently emerged. Police say several people reported a call from a person claiming to be with Microsoft Computers. The caller claims to need the call recipient’s computer IP address to determine if the computer has reported viruses that have … Continue reading Tyler Police Warn of Computer-Related Scam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":661449,"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-661447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 22:03:19","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\/661447","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661450,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661447\/revisions\/661450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/661449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}