{"id":5089,"date":"2021-04-07T14:18:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T22:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2021-04-07T14:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T22:21:26","slug":"phone-scams-in-san-francisco-pretending-to-be-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/phone-scams-in-san-francisco-pretending-to-be-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone scams in San Francisco; pretend to be cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/scam-2048851_1280-1024x666.jpg\" alt=\"san francisco\" class=\"wp-image-5090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/scam-2048851_1280-1024x666.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/scam-2048851_1280-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/scam-2048851_1280-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/scam-2048851_1280-16x10.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/scam-2048851_1280-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/scam-2048851_1280-696x453.jpg 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/scam-2048851_1280-1068x695.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [<a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/\">P360P<\/a>].<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanfranciscopolice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Police<\/a> reported that he has received information that scammers are contacting city residents via telephone, claiming they have outstanding warrants or have committed crimes and must pay a fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such scammers, he said in a statement, sometimes use technology known as \"call spoofing\" to display a San Francisco Police Department phone number or other official-looking numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given these facts, the authority recalled that the police department does not make calls asking for donations or to report court orders, also does not ask for money, gift cards or bank transfers to settle the guarantees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"San Francisco police urge all members of the community to be suspicious of strangers who ask for money to pay outstanding warrants or fines, as this is not the correct procedure,\" he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that sense, he pointed out that anyone who receives such a call should hang up immediately. \"Do not engage the caller in conversation and never give out personal information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also encouraged residents to share this information with their loved ones, as any vulnerable person could potentially fall victim to this scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be noted that anyone who has received such a call and provided personal identifying information - such as a social security number or driver's license number - or who has made a payment by any means, must file a police report in the jurisdiction of their residence.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pamela Cruz. Pen\u00ednsula 360 Press [P360P]. La polic\u00eda de San Francisco inform\u00f3 que ha recibido informaci\u00f3n de que estafadores est\u00e1n contactando v\u00eda telef\u00f3nica a residentes de la ciudad, alegando que tienen \u00f3rdenes judiciales pendientes o han cometido delitos y deben pagar una multa. Dichos estafadores, dijo en un comunicado, a veces usan tecnolog\u00eda conocida como [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-san-francisco"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5091,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions\/5091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}