{"id":15921,"date":"2016-08-13T08:56:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=15921"},"modified":"2016-08-13T08:56:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:56:27","slug":"video-online-mail-forwarding-scam-hits-north-texas-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/08\/13\/video-online-mail-forwarding-scam-hits-north-texas-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Online mail forwarding scam hits North Texas seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-width: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/interactive.tegna-media.com\/video\/embed\/embed.html?id=2329739&amp;type=video&amp;title=News%208%20Investigates%3A%20Identity%20theft&amp;site=287&amp;playerid=6918249996581&amp;dfpid=32805352&amp;dfpposition=Video_prestream_external\u00a7ion=home\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>FAIRVIEW, Texas \u2013 When Margaret Lepine discovered her mail-order prescription drugs had been forwarded to a Florida warehouse, she thought it was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>So she drove to the nearby post office and asked a clerk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe left, and came back a few minutes later, and said, \u2018Yeah, you filled out a form,\u2019\u201d Lepine recalled. \u201cI said, \u201cNo, I didn\u2019t.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To Lepine\u2019s surprise, an identity thief had filled out an online U.S. Postal Service change-of-address form, and had her mail forwarded to a Miami-area freight-forwarding company. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/news\/local\/investigates\/online-mail-forwarding-scam-hits-north-texas-seniors\/296349517\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15922\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/change-of-address-scam-texas-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"change-of-address-scam-texas\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/change-of-address-scam-texas-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/change-of-address-scam-texas.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRVIEW, Texas \u2013 When Margaret Lepine discovered her mail-order prescription drugs had been forwarded to a Florida warehouse, she thought it was a mistake. So she drove to the nearby post office and asked a clerk. \u201cShe left, and came back a few minutes later, and said, \u2018Yeah, you filled out a form,\u2019\u201d Lepine recalled. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15923,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions\/15923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}