{"id":63351,"date":"2026-03-26T09:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=63351"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:28:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:28:56","slug":"police-warn-citizens-of-phone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=63351","title":{"rendered":"Police warn citizens of phone scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX\/BEDFORD:<\/strong> Police are warning citizens to be cautious of a phone scam that appears to be spoofing a Halifax Regional Police phone-line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Halifax Regional Police received three reports that the phone number 902-490-5200, belonging to the West Division Office, is being used to contact individuals by someone claiming to be investigating fraud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all three instances, the victims are in Toronto and report being asked about cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police will never ask for money, cryptocurrency or gift cards. Scammers can spoof phone numbers to make it appear as though they\u2019re calling from a trusted source. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not give personal information to anyone by phone, email or in person unless you are certain of their identity and the legitimacy of the organization they represent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have been a victim of fraud, lost money or your identity has been compromised as the result of a scam, call police at 902-490-5020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can report a scam where you haven\u2019t been a victim to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre or call 1-888-495-8501.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX\/BEDFORD: Police are warning citizens to be cautious of a phone scam that appears to be spoofing a Halifax Regional Police phone-line. Today, Halifax Regional Police received three reports that the phone number 902-490-5200, belonging to the West Division Office, is being used to contact individuals by someone claiming to be investigating fraud. In all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[528,918,51,10643,1332],"class_list":["post-63351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-bedford","tag-halifax-regional-police","tag-hrp","tag-phone-scam","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63351","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=63351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}