{"id":199809,"date":"2026-05-22T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199809\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:08:09","slug":"allentown-police-warn-about-scam-text-messages-claiming-to-be-from-penndot-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199809\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown Police warn about scam text messages claiming to be from PennDOT | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Police in Allentown are warning people about fraudulent text messages claiming to be from PennDOT regarding suspended licenses, unpaid tickets, or \u201cfinal notices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, the Allentown Police Department said the messages are scams designed to steal your information.<\/p>\n<p>Do not click links or provide personal\/payment information, city police say.<\/p>\n<p>If you get one of these texts, city police say you should delete the message, report it as spam, and verify information only through official government websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Police in Allentown are warning people about fraudulent text messages claiming to be from PennDOT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,715,22267,88528,3431,663],"class_list":["post-199809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-police","tag-cybercrime","tag-fraudulent-text-messages","tag-penndot","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199809","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=199809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}