{"id":185488,"date":"2026-05-06T17:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185488\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:22:07","slug":"bensalem-police-warn-of-scam-from-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185488\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensalem Police Warn Of Scam From Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 The Bensalem Township Police Department is investigating several fraud attempts targeting residents and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Police said scammers are using publicly available information to identify people applying for permits or handling other township business involving fees with the Bensalem Township Building &amp; Planning Department.<\/p>\n<p>In these scams, victims then receive official-looking emails and invoices that appear to come from the Bensalem Township Building &amp; Planning Department requesting payment. <\/p>\n<p>Police said that one of the fraudulent email addresses being used is: BENSALEMPA@USA.COM. This is NOT a legitimate Bensalem Township email address.<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police have traced the activity to Nigeria. <\/p>\n<p>Residents and businesses are reminded to use caution when receiving emails requesting payment. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone conducting business with the township suspicious of an email, invoice, or payment request should contact the Bensalem Township Building &amp; Planning Department directly at 215-633-3600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 The Bensalem Township Police Department is investigating several fraud attempts targeting residents and businesses.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-185488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}