{"id":10772,"date":"2020-04-21T18:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fippennynews.co.uk\/?p=10772"},"modified":"2020-04-21T18:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T17:24:28","slug":"tv-licence-scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/?p=10772","title":{"rendered":"TV Licence Scam Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postbody\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10773 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fippennynews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/2020\/04\/TVLicensing.jpg?resize=300%2C187&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fippennynews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/2020\/04\/TVLicensing.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fippennynews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/2020\/04\/TVLicensing.jpg?resize=481%2C300&amp;ssl=1 481w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fippennynews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/2020\/04\/TVLicensing.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sent to me by a friend:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please warn any older family or friends of a scam my father fell victim to yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>From May this year pensioners are going to have to buy a tv licence &#8211; hopefully this will change &#8211; but yesterday my Dad responded to an email asking for his first month\u2019s payment and he paid it on his credit card.<\/p>\n<p>My stepmother was suspicious and reported it to his credit card company, but no payments had been taken.<\/p>\n<p>Today the bank contacted them to say \u00a3800 has been spent on his card &#8211; small payments for netflix, fashion shops etc. Because she had reported it they will get the money back.<\/p>\n<p>They said this is one of many scams but it is targeting a group who potentially are more vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>So sad.<\/p>\n<p>So disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>So please just warn people around you.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><sup><strong><em>Robin Clay<\/em><\/strong><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sent to me by a friend: Please warn any older family or friends of a scam my father fell victim to yesterday afternoon. From May this year pensioners are going to have to buy a tv licence &#8211; hopefully this will change &#8211; but yesterday my Dad responded to an email asking for his first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"class_list":["post-10772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fippennynews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/2020\/04\/TVLicensing.jpg?fit=620%2C387&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}