{"id":362,"date":"2009-11-25T08:53:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T08:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2023-01-09T13:39:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T13:39:18","slug":"christmas-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/email-scam\/christmas-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"justify\">The festival season brings out the top in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/scammers-list.php\">online scammers<\/a><\/strong>. CNET runs down common schemes to be cautious of, courtesy of McAfee:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Fake delivery      invoices:<\/strong> They look like real emails from UPS, Federal Express,      and so on, requesting for your address confirmation and credit card info      to ensure delivery.<\/li>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Christmas Scam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/images\/santa.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Scam\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Holiday<\/strong><strong> e-cards:<\/strong> Confirm that you know the site before opening. This is a      best way to get malware and all other manners of unwanted advertising.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Charity phishing: <\/strong>Again,      the appearances are unreliable, even if the email looks like it&#8217;s from a genuine      charity.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Fake friend requests:<\/strong> If these come by email, bundle clear. Best friend to a celebrity directly   on Face book or any other services that you&#8217;re using.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Christmas carols:<\/strong> Or at least, penetrating for them. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/\">Scammers<\/a><\/strong> create replica sites to lure      people looking for holiday music or related media.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Luxury jewelry      offers:<\/strong> Follow that wise old proverb: If it&#8217;s too good to be      true, it probably is. Even though the site sports a real-looking and better      Business Bureau logo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"position:absolute; left:-9021px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ser-rrc.org\/ivermectin-online-buy-or-not\/\">https:\/\/www.ser-rrc.org\/ivermectin-online-buy-or-not\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The festival season brings out the top in online scammers. CNET runs down common schemes to be cautious of, courtesy of McAfee: Fake delivery invoices: They look like real emails from UPS, Federal Express, and so on, requesting for your address confirmation and credit card info to ensure delivery. Holiday e-cards: Confirm that you know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3,9],"tags":[106,37],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-scams","category-email-scam","category-security-breach","tag-email-scam","tag-internet-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}