{"id":248682,"date":"2016-09-16T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=248682"},"modified":"2016-09-16T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T09:00:09","slug":"police-service-cautions-ghanaians-against-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=248682","title":{"rendered":"Police service cautions Ghanaians against scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Police Service has called on Ghanaians to be wary of the what it calls the \u201clatest brand of scam perpetrated by some criminals\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Police Service in a statement signed by its Director of Public Affairs, Supt Cephas Arthur, said &#8220;scammers operate under the guise of Police and create accident scenarios to hoodwink unsuspecting members of the \u00a0public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It further noted that &#8220;victims receive unexpected calls indicating that some supposed relations of theirs have hit the rear of Police vehicles\u00a0and that the occupant police officers are demanding money instantly through a given mobile money transfer line, to drop this money, the failure of which they threaten to process the suspect for court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Police Service advised Ghanaians to be wary of the scam and also desist from the temptation to pay money to save one&#8217;s relations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The public is advised to report all such situations to the Police or call Police hotlines MTN and Vodafone 18555 or 191 on all networks\u00a0for prompt action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Police Service has called on Ghanaians to be wary of the what it calls the \u201clatest brand of scam perpetrated by some criminals\u201d The Police Service in a statement signed by its Director of Public Affairs, Supt Cephas Arthur, said &#8220;scammers operate under the guise of Police and create accident scenarios to hoodwink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[11822,3,519,3344],"class_list":["post-248682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-cephas","tag-ghana-news","tag-police","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}