{"id":63879,"date":"2025-12-18T01:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/63879\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T01:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:39:12","slug":"telephone-scams-increase-at-holidays-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/63879\/","title":{"rendered":"Telephone scams increase at holidays \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published December 17. 2025 11:29AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Lehigh County Sheriff Joseph N. Hanna recently announced telephone scams are rising again throughout Lehigh County and the surrounding region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">According to a recent news release, residents have reported receiving phone calls from people representing themselves as sheriff\u2019s deputies, detectives and\/or members of the Lehigh County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">In the release, Hanna emphasized the Lehigh County Sheriff\u2019s Office does not request money in payment by phone for alleged fines, failure to appear for court or jury duty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Hanna advises the public not to give personal biographical information over the telephone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cThis includes but is not limited to Social Security numbers, credit and\/or debit card information, banking and\/or checking account numbers, balance amounts and other financial details,\u201d according to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cThe public should not respond to specific locations that are requested by an individual over the telephone without first verifying the nature and authenticity of the request by law enforcement,\u201d the release continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">For more information, contact the Lehigh County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 610-782-3175 during business hours or the Lehigh County Communications Center at the nonemergency number, 610-437-5252.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published December 17. 2025 11:29AM Lehigh County Sheriff Joseph N. Hanna recently announced telephone scams are rising again&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-63879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63879","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=63879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}