{"id":6098,"date":"2024-01-16T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=6098"},"modified":"2024-01-16T15:35:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:35:36","slug":"beware-of-new-smart-meter-phone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2024\/01\/16\/beware-of-new-smart-meter-phone-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware Of New Smart Meter Phone Scam."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Nova Scotia RCMP is warning members of the public about a phone scam where the caller poses as a Nova Scotia Power (NSP) employee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scammer wants you to believe that you didn\u2019t pay for your smart meter installation, indicating that if you don&#8217;t pay up immediately, your power will be disconnected within an hour. The scammer adds that a technician is on their way to your residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a scam designed to trick people into providing their personal information, including bank or credit card details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have questions about your NSP account \u2013 or any other account \u2013 after an unexpected phone call, hang up and contact the service provider directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : RCMP Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nova Scotia RCMP is warning members of the public about a phone scam where the caller poses as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6099,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions\/6099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}