{"id":269958,"date":"2026-05-13T21:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269958\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:09:07","slug":"ocoee-police-warns-residents-of-bank-fraud-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269958\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocoee police warns residents of bank fraud scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h947668-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Ocoee residents have been calling the Ocoee Police Department about being scammed through text messages, phone calls and emails.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h947668-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">According to OPD, scammers are acting as if they were from a bank or another agency and are asking victims to withdraw cash from their accounts to &#8220;keep it safe.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h947668-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">They&#8217;re then instructing victims to place the moeny in an envelope and hand it to someone else.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h947668-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;No bank will ever call you, text you or email you and have you withdraw cash to give to somebody else,&#8221; Sgt. David Ogletree said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h947668-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">OPD asks residents to call at 407-805-2160 if they&#8217;ve been victimized by this scam.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ocoee residents have been calling the Ocoee Police Department about being scammed through text messages, phone calls and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-269958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}