{"id":1649,"date":"2017-02-19T06:25:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T12:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2017-02-18T14:26:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T20:26:42","slug":"irs-warns-of-video-relay-scam-targeting-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/irs-warns-of-video-relay-scam-targeting-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Warns of Video Relay Scam Targeting Deaf and Hard of Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Every day scammers come up with new ways to steal taxpayers\u2019 identities and personal information.<\/h1>\n<h2>Some scammers pretend to be from the IRS with one goal in mind: to steal money.<\/h2>\n<p>Be aware that con artists will use video relay services (VRS) to try to scam deaf and hard of hearing individuals. Don\u2019t become a victim. Deaf and hard of hearing taxpayers should avoid giving out personal and financial information to anyone they do not know.<\/p>\n<p>Always confirm that the person requesting personal information is who they say they are.<\/p>\n<p>Do not automatically trust calls just because they are made through VRS. VRS interpreters do not screen calls for validity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day scammers come up with new ways to steal taxpayers\u2019 identities and personal information. Some scammers pretend to be from the IRS with one goal in mind: to steal money. Be aware that con artists will use video relay services (VRS) to try to scam deaf and hard of hearing individuals. Don\u2019t become a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-02-19T12:29:36Z","apple_news_api_id":"f8c8d629-82c2-4e40-9896-5f366041f009","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-02-19T12:29:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-MjWKYLCTkCYll82YEHwCQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/u48r14.digitalhub.com\/sections\/74d71b26-dfe2-3cf6-9b79-55911f8259f1"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}