{"id":46470,"date":"2023-01-15T17:35:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T22:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=46470"},"modified":"2023-01-15T17:35:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T22:35:44","slug":"scam-alert-fema-wont-ask-you-for-your-social-security-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=46470","title":{"rendered":"Scam Alert: FEMA won&#8217;t ask you for your social security number"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the heels of deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/2023\/01\/13\/tornado-damage-claims-life-of-5-year-old-in-georgia\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"46342\">tornadoes that left several communities in shambles<\/a>, it appears there are bad actors attempting to take advantage of a bad situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jasper County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is warning residents that scammers impersonating FEMA may attempt to get personal information from victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Emergency Management Agency is in the area doing damage assessments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, FEMA will never ask for your date of birth, Social Security Number or driver\u2019s license information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office says if someone posing as a representative from FEMA comes to your house, do not answer their questions but instead get any vehicle information and report to 911 immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FEMA will contact Jasper County at the appointed time to get the required information for damage assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=32]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of deadly tornadoes that left several communities in shambles, it appears there are bad actors attempting to take advantage of a bad situation. The Jasper County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is warning residents that scammers impersonating FEMA may attempt to get personal information from victims. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is in the area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10189,10708,8787,12168,9504],"class_list":["post-46470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-fema","tag-jasper-county","tag-scam","tag-state","tag-tornado","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}