{"id":115,"date":"2008-11-05T15:01:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T15:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2024-01-05T09:22:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T09:22:46","slug":"more-actions-to-hitch-your-money-and-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/business-scams\/more-actions-to-hitch-your-money-and-data\/","title":{"rendered":"More Actions to Hitch Your Money and Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 22 million single practitioners and small firms in the US and proportionately huge numbers in other countries, business cheat is, well, big business.<\/p>\n<p>Most weeks, in our Scam lines catch of the newest scam news headlines, at least a couple will be business scams \u2014 where credulous firms are conned out of hundreds or thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Vendors are a particular target of business scams, and you can read our particular report covering some of the most common business scams in Scam Busters.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, many of the tricks played on private individuals often also reappear as business scams, like phishing and forged checks.<\/p>\n<p>And, as we recognize, the crooks don\u2019t stand still. They\u2019re continuously dreaming up new scams and variations of well-established ones. So, for this week\u2019s Scam Busters offering, we have pulled collectively a list of 7 recent business scams to watch out for (in addition to the retail tricks referred to above).<\/p>\n<p>(theclickreader)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 22 million single practitioners and small firms in the US and proportionately huge numbers in other countries, business cheat is, well, big business. Most weeks, in our Scam lines catch of the newest scam news headlines, at least a couple will be business scams \u2014 where credulous firms are conned out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}