{"id":971605,"date":"2021-02-20T14:30:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T20:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=971605"},"modified":"2021-02-21T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T22:14:48","slug":"be-aware-fraudsters-love-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=971605","title":{"rendered":"Be aware: Fraudsters love disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/02\/fraud-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-971607\" \/>TYLER &#8212; As Texas suffers from historic freezing temperatures and massive property damage with freezing pipes, the United States Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office for the Eastern District of Texas reminds the public that fraudsters soon follow disaster. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fraudsters often appear from nowhere to take advantage of natural disasters, which is what occurred in the early days of the pandemic. Now, we are concerned that weary homeowners will fall prey to unsolicited calls regarding insurance claims, home warranties, or bogus government grants\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you did not solicit the call, hang up.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Millions of people fall victim to scams every year. If you think you have become a victim, contact your local law enforcement authority. You can also submit a report by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/ReportFraud.ftc.gov\">here<\/a>. to . For more tips,  click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumer.ftc.gov\/features\/scam-alerts\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; As Texas suffers from historic freezing temperatures and massive property damage with freezing pipes, the United States Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office for the Eastern District of Texas reminds the public that fraudsters soon follow disaster. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fraudsters often appear from nowhere to take advantage of natural disasters, which is what occurred in the early days of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=971605\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Be aware: Fraudsters love disasters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":971610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/02\/fraud-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Be aware: Fraudsters love disasters","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 19:41:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/02\/fraud-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Be aware: Fraudsters love disasters","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971605","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=971605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971611,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971605\/revisions\/971611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/971610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}