{"id":285558,"date":"2026-04-25T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285558\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T13:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:31:13","slug":"long-beach-pd-warns-of-scammer-pretending-to-be-from-the-church-requesting-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285558\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach PD warns of scammer pretending to be from the church requesting donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Miss. (WXXV)- In Long Beach, police are warning against another scam going around.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the scammer is impersonating a pastor or priest, requesting donations of gift cards for a family in need.<\/p>\n<p>The police say residents are being contacted through text or by email.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach police say to confirm with your church before responding to a message.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Miss. (WXXV)- In Long Beach, police are warning against another scam going around. This time, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-285558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}