{"id":930011,"date":"2020-10-13T08:12:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=930011"},"modified":"2020-10-14T08:12:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T13:12:01","slug":"kilgore-pd-warns-of-scam-involving-fake-speeding-ticket-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=930011","title":{"rendered":"Kilgore PD warns of email scam involving fake speeding ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-930020\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/10\/KilgorePD-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>KILGORE &#8212; The Kilgore Police Department is warning local residents about a new scam involving your email. According to our news partner KETK, KPD says residents have received emails claiming they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been caught by a speed camera in Kilgore and that they owed around $875 in fines. The fake email includes a link that officials say, &#8220;under no circumstances should be clicked.&#8221; The department said, &#8220;This most likely allows them into your computer where they have access to your data&#8230;we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how the scam works completely since we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t click that link, but Texas doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have speed cameras.&#8221; Governor Abbott signed a bill in May of 2019 that banned the use of red light cameras in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8212; The Kilgore Police Department is warning local residents about a new scam involving your email. According to our news partner KETK, KPD says residents have received emails claiming they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been caught by a speed camera in Kilgore and that they owed around $875 in fines. The fake email includes a link that officials &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=930011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kilgore PD warns of email scam involving fake speeding ticket<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"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-930011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 16:31:10","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\/930011","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930022,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930011\/revisions\/930022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}