{"id":627040,"date":"2025-12-11T21:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/627040\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:30:39","slug":"hoax-water-and-electricity-company-robberies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/627040\/","title":{"rendered":"HOAX: Water and Electricity Company Robberies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Provided by Prince William County Police<\/p>\n<p>There is a social media message circulating via email, SMS, and social media that states three or four\u00a0guys are pretending to be water or electric company employees to gain access to a home. Once\u00a0they gain access, the men rob the resident at gunpoint.\u00a0There are no credible reports about robberies like the ones described in the warning.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, many false and misleading warnings circulate online. These messages can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cause unnecessary fear and alarm in communities.<\/li>\n<li>Waste the time of police who must answer endless queries about the messages from\u00a0concerned members of the public.<\/li>\n<li>Make it less likely that people will heed genuine warnings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While this particular warning is false, criminals have indeed posed as maintenance\u00a0workers as a means of accessing households. Before admitting people claiming to be from your\u00a0water, energy or telecommunications provider, you should ensure that they are legitimate. Such\u00a0staff will generally wear a company uniform and be able to produce company ID.\u00a0If in doubt, call the company to verify their employment before allowing them in.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/hoax-men-claiming-water-company-robbing-homes-gunpoint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hoax-slayer.net\/hoax-men-claiming-water-company-robbing-homes-gunpoint\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Provided by Prince William County Police There is a social media message circulating via email, SMS, and social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,194438,533,2832,532,194439,2831,7710,519,7711,194440,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-627040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-hoax","12":"tag-kate-middleton","13":"tag-prince-of-wales","14":"tag-prince-william","15":"tag-prince-william-county-police","16":"tag-princess-of-wales","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-uk-royal-family","20":"tag-water-and-electric-company-robberies","21":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115703068995784774","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}