{"id":2518,"date":"2023-06-01T07:01:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2023-06-01T07:01:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T07:01:39","slug":"daily-news-scam-june-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/scam\/daily-news-scam-june-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Scam – June 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Scam news 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twitter Hacking Scam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Twitter<\/a>
Twitter Hacking Scam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Arthur Madrid, co-founder and CEO of metaverse project The Sandbox, was the victim of a Twitter account hack on May 26, according to a post from Madrid that was apparently made after he recovered the account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attacker allegedly used Madrid\u2019s account to promote a fake \u201cairdrop\u201d phishing scam. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scam news 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texting with a Scam Artist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Texting<\/a>
Texting with a Scam Artist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHi Dad I\u2019m texting you off a friends phone I\u2019ve smashed mine and their phones about to die. Can you text my new number 089949**** please x.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The message arrived after 6pm and for an instant alarm bells started ringing. By chance, my oldest child was hundreds of kilometres away on a school trip and it was entirely believable she could have smashed her phone. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scam news 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scammers are Hijacking Job Ads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Job<\/a>
Job ad scam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Scammers are taking outdated ads from real employers, changing them, and posting them on employment websites and career-oriented platforms like Indeed or LinkedIn. The modified ads seem to be real job offers with legitimate companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re not. In fact, their goal is to trick you into sharing personal information. So how do you know if you\u2019re dealing with a scammer? Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scam news 1 Twitter Hacking Scam Arthur Madrid, co-founder and CEO of metaverse project The Sandbox, was the victim of a Twitter account hack on May 26, according to a post from Madrid that was apparently made after he recovered the account. The attacker allegedly used Madrid\u2019s account to promote a fake \u201cairdrop\u201d phishing scam. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","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=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}