{"id":734162,"date":"2018-08-10T14:55:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T19:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=734162"},"modified":"2018-08-12T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T20:36:12","slug":"irs-scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=734162","title":{"rendered":"IRS Scam Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/scam-alert2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/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>LONGVIEW &#8211; The Gregg County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is reporting that people are once again getting the IRS scam phone calls. Someone is calling, claiming to be an IRS official, wanting payment for a past due tax bill. They try and con the victim into sending cash, usually through a prepaid debit card or wire transfer. They may also leave \u00e2\u20ac\u0153urgent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d callback requests through phone \u00e2\u20ac\u0153robo-calls,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or via phishing email. The IRS says, this is not the way they operate. If you don&#8217;t owe back taxes, or have no reason to think that you do, don&#8217;t give out any information, just hang up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8211; The Gregg County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is reporting that people are once again getting the IRS scam phone calls. Someone is calling, claiming to be an IRS official, wanting payment for a past due tax bill. They try and con the victim into sending cash, usually through a prepaid debit card or wire transfer. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=734162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IRS 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-734162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 15:04:58","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\/734162","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=734162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734166,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734162\/revisions\/734166"}],"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=734162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}