{"id":35955,"date":"2022-05-03T11:06:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=35955"},"modified":"2022-05-03T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:06:38","slug":"new-scam-claims-to-be-from-the-west-bend-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/new-scam-claims-to-be-from-the-west-bend-news\/","title":{"rendered":"New Scam Claims to be from The West Bend News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Scam-Alert.jpg?resize=364%2C317&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35956\" width=\"364\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Scam-Alert.jpg?w=666&amp;ssl=1 666w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Scam-Alert.jpg?resize=560%2C488&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Scam-Alert.jpg?resize=260%2C226&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Scam-Alert.jpg?resize=160%2C139&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have received a phone call claiming to be from West Bend News, be sure to know who you are talking to, and they are local.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a new scam going on claiming to be from this business but it is not legitimate. With a strong foreign accent they are asking for information that we would probably already have, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The premise is to get you in confidence by giving you a little bit of information they have gathered online or in the newspaper. We do not know the end goal, but the police department is looking into this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are questioning if the person is really from West Bend News\/Printing, hang up and call us at our office number at 419-258-2000. If caller ID shows from any other number, it is NOT The West Bend News.<br>DO NOT GIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION OUT. THE WEST BEND NEWS WILL NOT CALL AND BE ASKING EVEN OUR CUSTOMERS FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have received a phone call claiming to be from West Bend News, be sure to know who you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14252,2302],"class_list":["post-35955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-scam-alert","tag-west-bend-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Scam-Alert.jpg?fit=666%2C580&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-9lV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 01:04:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}