{"id":2095,"date":"2023-04-04T07:27:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T07:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2023-04-04T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T07:27:07","slug":"daily-news-updates-april-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/email-scam\/daily-news-updates-april-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Updates &#8211; April 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scam news 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Card Tap Scam at Bar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/image-58.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"Card tap scam\" data-rl_caption=\"Card Tap Scam\" title=\"Card tap scam\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/image-58.png\" alt=\"Card Tap Scam\" class=\"wp-image-2096\" width=\"411\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/image-58.png 750w, https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/image-58-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/image-58-624x374.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Card tap scam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018This actually happened to me at a bar\u2019: Man shows how you can get scammed by person with card tap reader machine at bar;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most effective marketing techniques a company can use is showcasing a problem consumers may encounter before promising that one of its products or services will fix it\u2014that, or creating content that goes viral.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/news\/card-tap-reader-machine-scam\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/news\/card-tap-reader-machine-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scam news 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">That Email Is Not the IRS, It\u2019s a Scam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/email-scam.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"Email scam\" data-rl_caption=\"Email scam\" title=\"Email scam\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/email-scam.png\" alt=\"Email scam\" class=\"wp-image-2097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/email-scam.png 399w, https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/email-scam-300x292.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Email scam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No one wants the IRS to contact them. You hope to deal with them once a year at tax time, without worrying about audits or mistakes on your numbers. So, if one day, an email from the Internal Revenue Service shows up in your inbox, you\u2019re bound to take it seriously. Well, don\u2019t. In fact, you have my permission to totally ignore any communication from the IRS to your email address\u2014because it\u2019s 100% a scam.<a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/that-email-is-not-the-irs-it-s-a-scam-1850268576\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/that-email-is-not-the-irs-it-s-a-scam-1850268576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scam news 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Email Scam Costliest type of Cybercrime<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/bank-details.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"Bank scam\" data-rl_caption=\"Bank scam\" title=\"Bank scam\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"394\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/bank-details.png\" alt=\"Bank scam\" class=\"wp-image-2098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/bank-details.png 394w, https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/bank-details-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/bank-details-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bank scam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>RICHMOND, Va. (AP) \u2014 A shopping spree in Beverly Hills, a luxury vacation in Mexico, a bank account that jumped from $299.77 to $1.4 million overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the outside, it looked like Moe and Kateryna Abourched had won the lottery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this big payday didn\u2019t come from lucky numbers. Rather, a public school district in Michigan was tricked into wiring its monthly health insurance payment to the bank account of a California nail salon the Abourcheds owned, according to a search warrant application filed by a Secret Service agent in federal court.<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-travel-business-crime-cybercrime-2f050130524aae7641da7005ecc02562\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-travel-business-crime-cybercrime-2f050130524aae7641da7005ecc02562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scam news 1 Card Tap Scam at Bar \u2018This actually happened to me at a bar\u2019: Man shows how you can get scammed by person with card tap reader machine at bar; One of the most effective marketing techniques a company can use is showcasing a problem consumers may encounter before promising that one 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":[19,60,3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-cyber-scam","category-email-scam","category-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","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=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}