{"id":127661,"date":"2015-11-20T16:11:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T06:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=127661"},"modified":"2020-11-05T12:35:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T02:35:41","slug":"beware-of-scam-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2015\/11\/20\/beware-of-scam-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware Of Scam Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>November 20, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Traffic accident &#8220;scam&#8221; calls publicised recently by police in the Darling Downs area have also occurred in the South Burnett.<\/p>\n<p>South Burnett Online was cold-called on Thursday by a man claiming to be from a solicitor&#8217;s office who said he had information we had been involved in a car crash during the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>We hung up.<\/p>\n<p>However, if the call had continued the man &#8211; who was dialing on a &#8220;private&#8221; number &#8211; probably would have suggested we were entitled to compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Calls like this have been reported recently from the Goombungee area.<\/p>\n<p>Police have warned this is a scam and remind residents to never give out personal details over the phone, especially financial information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic accident &#8220;scam&#8221; calls publicised recently by police in the Darling Downs area have also occurred in the South Burnett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":277292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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