{"id":44128,"date":"2017-08-29T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=44128"},"modified":"2017-08-29T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:18:07","slug":"meals-wheels-phone-scam-affecting-pa-seniors-neighboring-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=44128","title":{"rendered":"Meals on Wheels Phone Scam Affecting PA Seniors In Neighboring County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Allentown, PA\u2014Clients of Berks Encore Meals on Wheels program in Berks County, PA have been contacted by a scammer who said he was from Meals on Wheels.\u00a0 The targeted individuals reported that the caller knew a variety of personal details, including the names of their children and financial institutions. \u00a0The scammer asks the individual to provide information about his\/her home, home ownership status, rent\/mortgage information, and bank account information. This is yet another scam trying to get financial information from seniors.<\/p>\n<p>Meals on Wheels of Lehigh County has warned its clients that no staff from its office will call on the phone asking to update financial information unless the client has requested the staff to do so.\u00a0 Office staff have told clients to hang up and report such calls to the Meals on Wheels office at 610-398-2563.<\/p>\n<p>Michele Grasso, MPA<br \/>\nDirector of Development and Communications<br \/>\nMeals on Wheels of Lehigh County<br \/>\n4234 Dorney Park Rd.<br \/>\nAllentown, PA\u00a0 18104<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mealsonwheelslc.org\">www.mealsonwheelslc.org<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/scam-calls.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}