{"id":950799,"date":"2026-10-29T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950799\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:52:08","slug":"scam-alert-white-rock-rcmp-warns-public-of-phone-fraudsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950799\/","title":{"rendered":"Scam alert: White Rock RCMP warns public of phone fraudsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Scam alert: White Rock RCMP warns public of phone fraudsters<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 8:06 am Thursday, October 29, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    By Tricia Leslie\/Peace Arch News\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>White Rock RCMP is encouraging residents to be cautious after receiving reports of scammers spoofing the detachment\u2019s phone number and posing as police officers investigating identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>The callers are requesting personal information while making it appear as though the call is coming from White Rock RCMP, police said in a release. To date, the individuals who reported the calls did not provide any information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScammers can make it look like they are calling from a legitimate phone number, including a police detachment,\u201d White Rock RCMP detachment commander Staff Sgt. Rob Dixon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you receive a call claiming to be from police and are unsure if it is legitimate, hang up and call the detachment directly using a publicly listed phone number to verify the call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Residents are reminded not to provide personal, financial, or banking information over the phone unless they are certain they know who they are speaking with.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who believes they may have been targeted by this scam is encouraged to report it to their local police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scam alert: White Rock RCMP warns public of phone fraudsters Published 8:06 am Thursday, October 29, 2026 By&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-950799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}