{"id":9967,"date":"2015-02-04T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9967"},"modified":"2015-02-04T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:23:50","slug":"video-thieves-targeting-mailboxes-for-w-2s-so-they-can-steal-tax-refunds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/02\/04\/video-thieves-targeting-mailboxes-for-w-2s-so-they-can-steal-tax-refunds\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Thieves Targeting Mailboxes For W-2s, So They Can Steal Tax Refunds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELK GROVE (CBS13) \u2014 Thieves are targeting mailboxes in search of tax documents to help them file fake returns and steal people\u2019s tax refunds.<br \/>\nNearly a dozen cities have been hit in the past few weeks, and if the crooks go their hands on a W-2, they have everything they need to file a tax return in someone else\u2019s name and claim their money.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Postal Service says Elk Grove has seen the most recent mail thefts. <a href=\"http:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2015\/02\/03\/thieves-targeting-mailboxes-for-w-2s-so-they-can-steal-tax-refunds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/CBSSAC.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=663022;hostDomain=video.sacramento.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=475;playerHeight=350;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11099476;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.SAC%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cluster-box-theft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9968\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cluster-box-theft-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"cluster box theft\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cluster-box-theft-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cluster-box-theft.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELK GROVE (CBS13) \u2014 Thieves are targeting mailboxes in search of tax documents to help them file fake returns and steal people\u2019s tax refunds. Nearly a dozen cities have been hit in the past few weeks, and if the crooks go their hands on a W-2, they have everything they need to file a tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-postal-crime","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9967","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=9967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9969,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9967\/revisions\/9969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}