{"id":4111,"date":"2024-07-18T05:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T05:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2024-07-18T05:09:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T05:09:05","slug":"north-delta-resident-loses-20000-in-tech-support-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/tech-scam\/north-delta-resident-loses-20000-in-tech-support-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"North Delta Resident Loses $20,000 in Tech-Support Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A North Delta resident was scammed out of $20,000 in a fraudulent tech-support scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Delta Police Department reported that the victim experienced issues with their computer camera and allowed a &#8220;third party&#8221; to access their computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The complainant transferred over $20,000 to what they thought was Apple support and the bank,&#8221; noted a DPD release. &#8220;When further funds were requested, the complainant realized the situation was fraudulent.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim contacted the bank, which advised that it would attempt to retrieve the funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre provides tips and resources for those who think they may have encountered a scam. It advises anyone who believes they have been scammed to report the incident to local police and obtain a file number for future reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A North Delta resident was scammed out of $20,000 in a fraudulent tech-support scheme. The Delta Police Department reported that the victim experienced issues with their computer camera and allowed a &#8220;third party&#8221; to access their computer. &#8220;The complainant transferred over $20,000 to what they thought was Apple support and the bank,&#8221; noted a DPD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-scam","tag-scam-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111","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=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4113,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions\/4113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}