{"id":115609,"date":"2025-12-04T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/12\/04\/knudsen-provides-tip-to-protect-yourself-from-scams\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-12-04T05:21:02","modified_gmt":"2028-10-19T05:21:02","slug":"knudsen-provides-tip-to-protect-yourself-from-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/12\/04\/knudsen-provides-tip-to-protect-yourself-from-scams\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Knudsen Provides Tip To Protect Yourself From Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Montanans prepare for holiday  shopping, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is sharing  a reminder to stay vigilant and be aware of common scams. The Office of Consumer Protection reports  that scams tend to be more common during the holidays than any other time of year.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cScammers will stop at nothing to steal Montanans\u2019 hard-earned money,  especially during the holidays. Please, make<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116042,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115609\/revisions\/116042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115609"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=115609"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=115609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}