{"id":120,"date":"2008-11-27T06:55:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T06:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2023-02-03T12:43:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:43:58","slug":"how-can-you-tell-if-a-particular-email-you-receive-is-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/awareness\/how-can-you-tell-if-a-particular-email-you-receive-is-a-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"How can you tell if a particular email you receive is a scam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">It&#8217;s sometimes very difficult to know. Nonetheless, there are some signs that make it very likely that an email is a scam:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&#8211; If it came as spam. If we could only advise you of one thing to do to protect yourself from scams, it would be to never respond to spam. 99.999% of all spam are scams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&#8211; If it has misspellings, bad grammar, and\/or very poor English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&#8211; If it is a very emotional plea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&#8211; If it asks for a money gram or wire transfer or money order (so you definitely can&#8217;t get your money back).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Any of these factors are huge red flags that the email is a scam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/frogbones.com\/xanax-bars-online-from-canada\/#\">frogbones<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sometimes very difficult to know. Nonetheless, there are some signs that make it very likely that an email is a scam: \u00a0&#8211; If it came as spam. If we could only advise you of one thing to do to protect yourself from scams, it would be to never respond to spam. 99.999% of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","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=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}