{"id":1323,"date":"2021-12-01T09:11:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T09:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2023-01-31T10:57:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T10:57:41","slug":"scammers-are-sending-fake-store-surveys-and-impersonating-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/phone-scam\/scammers-are-sending-fake-store-surveys-and-impersonating-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammers are sending fake &#8216;store&#8217; surveys and impersonating Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scammers send you a text message that appears to be from a well-known chain store offering a free product, discount or gift card to anyone who completes a survey, according to a news release by the BBB. Many of them state that it is a limited-time offer so you\u2019ll need to act fast if you want to receive your gift, the BBB says.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/sending-fake-store-surveys-scammer.jpg\" alt=\"sending fake store surveys-scammer\" width=\"465\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Elderly Fenton man a victim of phone scam:-<\/h2>\n<p><b>Out $2,500 to unknown caller who claimed he was trying to help resident whose computer had been hacked<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/victim-of-phone-scam.jpg\" alt=\"victim-of-phone-scam\" width=\"457\" height=\"284\" \/><br \/>\nAn 86-year-old Fenton man reported to Fenton police that he had been scammed out of $2,500. The man told police that someone had called his phone and told him that his computer had been hacked and that he needed to send the caller $4,500 in Apple gift cards so that he could retrieve the personal information from his computer.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/martinwater.com\/tramadol-online-how-can-i-buy-it\/\">martinwater.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scammers send you a text message that appears to be from a well-known chain store offering a free product, discount or gift card to anyone who completes a survey, according to a news release by the BBB. Many of them state that it is a limited-time offer so you\u2019ll need to act fast if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-phone-scam","category-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","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\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}