{"id":115348,"date":"2015-01-12T20:18:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T03:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/theres-a-new-angle-to-the-lpea-scam\/"},"modified":"2015-01-12T20:18:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T03:18:37","slug":"theres-a-new-angle-to-the-lpea-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/theres-a-new-angle-to-the-lpea-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a new angle to the LPEA scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Businesses in Archuleta and La Plata counties are the targets.<\/p>\n<p>The latest assault includes the LPEA name and telephone number in the caller ID. In earlier attempts to dupe LPEA customers, the caller relied on intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had many more calls from customers,\u201d chief financial officer Dennis Svanes said in a statement. \u201cWe believe it\u2019s because our name and number come up in the caller ID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the basic premise of the call hasn\u2019t changed. The customer is in arrears in his payments and faces having service cut if payment isn\u2019t received quickly.<\/p>\n<p>When an account is past due, LPEA customers receive a series of notices and are given adequate time to settle a bill, a news release said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses in Archuleta and La Plata counties are the targets. The latest assault includes the LPEA name and telephone number in the caller ID. In earlier attempts to dupe LPEA customers, the caller relied on intimidation. \u201cWe\u2019ve had many more calls from customers,\u201d chief financial officer Dennis Svanes said in a statement. \u201cWe believe it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5735],"tags":[1503,13,483],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-115348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-fraud","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-la-plata-electric-association"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115348"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=115348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}