{"id":115857,"date":"2025-12-04T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/12\/04\/a-payment-anyone-who-asks\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-12-04T05:00:30","modified_gmt":"2028-10-19T05:00:30","slug":"a-payment-anyone-who-asks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/12\/04\/a-payment-anyone-who-asks\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"a payment. Anyone who asks &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a payment. Anyone who asks you to pay using one of these methods is most likely a scammer.<br \/>\n\t  \u2022 Be wary of a false sense of urgency. Trust your gut. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.<br \/>\n\t  \u2022 Do not send gift cards, prepaid debit cards, or cryptocurrency  to someone you do not know. Even if you think it is someone you know, verify their identity before you wire any money.<br \/>\n\t  \u2022 Never<\/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\/115857"}],"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=115857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115940,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115857\/revisions\/115940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115857"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=115857"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=115857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}