{"id":37311,"date":"2016-09-09T00:56:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T07:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crpud.net\/?p=37311"},"modified":"2019-03-27T13:27:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:27:30","slug":"scammers-using-text-messages-to-target-pud-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/scammers-using-text-messages-to-target-pud-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammers Using Text Messages to Target PUD Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\" \"><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37314 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/f7642ffa-ccf4-42be-95ee-4a9e21df1284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"280\" \/><\/em>September 9, 2016 \u2013 Columbia River People&#8217;s Utility District (PUD) is warning customers of a new text message scam.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">A customer received a text message that said his account was behind and that he needed to make a payment to avoid having his electric service disconnected. The message listed an incorrect account number. It instructed the customer to respond to a specific phone number or email address.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">The PUD does not use automated text messaging to communicate with customers. If you receive a message like this, ignore it. Do not call the number or send an email to that address. Please report the message to your local police department.<\/p>\n<p class=\" \">Visit the PUD website for tips to combat\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/how-to-recognize-scam-artists\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">common scams targeting utility customers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 9, 2016 \u2013 Columbia River People&#8217;s Utility District (PUD) is warning customers of a new text message scam. A customer received a text message that said his account was behind and that he needed to make a payment to avoid having his electric service disconnected. The message listed an incorrect account number. It instructed [&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":37314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}