{"id":124541,"date":"2026-04-30T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/04\/30\/secretary-of-state-warns-businesses-of-deceptive-mailing\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-04-30T05:01:57","modified_gmt":"2028-10-16T05:01:57","slug":"secretary-of-state-warns-businesses-of-deceptive-mailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/04\/30\/secretary-of-state-warns-businesses-of-deceptive-mailing\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Of State Warns  Businesses Of Deceptive Mailing"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Christi  Jacobsen on Wednesday warned business owners of a company engaging in \u201ca new deceptive mailing\u201d her o_ce said is a \u201cbrazen attempt\u201d to financially exploit Montanans.<br \/>\n\t  In the mailer, National Business Services uses features  that make it resemble  an o_cial government record, and it cites fines as high as $25,000 if a company  doesn\u2019t obtain specific documentation,<\/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\/124541"}],"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=124541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124646,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124541\/revisions\/124646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124541"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=124541"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=124541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}