ROCKPORT, Tx \u2014 The City of Rockport has issued a warning about fraudulent invoices and applications being circulated that falsely appear to come from the city government.<\/p>\n
According to a press release issued by the city, the fake documents may reference construction projects, variance applications, or other city-related matters and typically request payment through wire transfer.<\/p>\n
City officials emphasize that these are not legitimate city communications. While the fraudulent documents may display the City Seal, other details clearly indicate they are not official.<\/p>\n
What to Do If You Receive a Suspicious Invoice<\/p>\n
City officials advise anyone who receives such an invoice or payment request to:<\/p>\n
Do not respond or send paymentDelete the message immediatelyChange your passwords as a precaution<\/p>\n
The city is urging all residents and businesses to verify any invoice, application, or payment request by contacting the City of Rockport directly before taking any action.<\/p>\n
This type of fraud scheme, which impersonates government entities to extract money from unsuspecting victims, has become increasingly common across municipalities nationwide. The scammers often create convincing-looking documents that include official logos and formatting to appear legitimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCKPORT, Tx \u2014 The City of Rockport has issued a warning about fraudulent invoices and applications being circulated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[21989,155,157,156,21990,21991],"class_list":["post-34794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-city-of-rockport","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-fraud-alert","tag-rockport-fraud-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}