{"id":84900,"date":"2015-03-28T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/84900\/beware-of-identity-fraud\/"},"modified":"2015-03-27T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T11:59:43","slug":"beware-of-identity-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/28\/beware-of-identity-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of identity fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police have noted a rise in the number of identity fraud cases being reported.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, they wish to warn the community to be careful when giving out their personal information, including their ID numbers.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to warn members of the community of the rising number of fraud cases in our area, especially those who are sending money via money markets in retail stores,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The warning is not limited to individuals; companies are also warned to verify messages they receive via social media, to deposit money into new accounts.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Have you experienced identity fraud?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/53896\/pillay-sentenced-in-regional-courtorfraudster-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pillay sentenced in regional court.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/67717\/con-man-manages-to-get-r43-000-from-victim\/\" target=\"_blank\">Business loses R43\u00a0000 through scam.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='d35dd4e32dea3593d546eb10eb3a3c22'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraud on the rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":84919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[8297,989,1012,1003,1684,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998,1323],"class_list":["post-84900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-fraud","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps","tag-warning"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","fraud","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}