{"id":742953,"date":"2018-09-25T18:10:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T23:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=742953"},"modified":"2018-09-26T17:35:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T22:35:04","slug":"payroll-scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=742953","title":{"rendered":"Payroll Scam Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/03\/betterbusinessbureau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/03\/betterbusinessbureau-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-697100\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; The Better Business Bureau of East Texas is warning about a Payroll Diversion Scam. The FBI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Internet Crime Complaint Center has issued an urgent warning about an old scam\u00c2\u00a0which has come back with a new\u00c2\u00a0twist. It is a direct deposit phishing scam that targets the online payroll accounts of  employees in a variety of industries. You are warned to be on the lookout for emails requesting personal information They may be from cybercriminals looking to access bank account information. Once they get the information, they can block the employee from accessing their account. This allows the scammer to reroute direct deposits to a prepaid card or other account which they control. If you get an email requesting log-in credentials or personal identifying information, don&#8217;t respond to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; The Better Business Bureau of East Texas is warning about a Payroll Diversion Scam. The FBI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Internet Crime Complaint Center has issued an urgent warning about an old scam\u00c2\u00a0which has come back with a new\u00c2\u00a0twist. It is a direct deposit phishing scam that targets the online payroll accounts of employees in a variety &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=742953\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Payroll Scam Alert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":697100,"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-742953","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 02:29:13","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\/742953","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=742953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742954,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742953\/revisions\/742954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/697100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}