{"id":16116,"date":"2020-08-12T15:24:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=16116"},"modified":"2020-08-12T15:24:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:24:27","slug":"police-issue-warning-to-public-regarding-sin-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=16116","title":{"rendered":"Police issue warning to public regarding SIN scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>DARTMOUTH:<\/strong> Nova Scotia RCMP\u00a0is warning the public about a number of phone scams being reported throughout the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phone calls involve someone calling from\u00a01-800 numbers, local numbers and the RCMP toll-free number (1-800-803-7267) and saying that there are issues with the individual&#8217;s\u00a0Social Insurance Number (SIN). The caller then says the person will be arrested\u00a0if their personal information is not provided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;21&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The callers of these scams say they are calling from a specific federal agency\u00a0and request the individual&#8217;s\u00a0name, date of birth and SIN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police are advising anyone who receives a call asking for their Social Insurance Number, or any personal or financial information, to request a name and a call-back number&nbsp;and verify the institution requesting the information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone who suspects they have been targeted in a phone scam is encouraged to contact their local police, and also the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at\u00a01-888-495-8501. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about common fraud scams and how to protect yourself, visit\u00a0he Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre&#8217;s website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca\/index-eng.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca\/index-eng.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;9&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARTMOUTH: Nova Scotia RCMP\u00a0is warning the public about a number of phone scams being reported throughout the province. The phone calls involve someone calling from\u00a01-800 numbers, local numbers and the RCMP toll-free number (1-800-803-7267) and saying that there are issues with the individual&#8217;s\u00a0Social Insurance Number (SIN). The caller then says the person will be arrested\u00a0if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[48,14,1332],"class_list":["post-16116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-n-s","tag-rcmp","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}