{"id":412,"date":"2010-01-18T07:40:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T07:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2024-01-04T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:50:00","slug":"international-accommodation-scam-was-caught-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/awareness\/international-accommodation-scam-was-caught-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"International Accommodation Scam was caught in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">New Zealanders have supposedly been caught up in a most important <strong>international scam<\/strong> where fraudster go ahead and bid fake accommodation, and then they trick victims into sending across bond and rent cash.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The scammers concerned are targeting flat-finder websites from all over the globe, and once they have successfully recognized contact with their home-hunting victim via e-mail, they collect money from them and then steal their individual detail to go on and cheat the next victim.<br \/>\nSometimes, the <strong>scammers<\/strong> go as far in advance as actually speaking with the victim over the phone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Warnings of scam have been sounded that someone asking for money via a \u201cWestern Union\u201d transfer was \u201cwould always be a <strong>scammer<\/strong>\u201d and generally working from an overseas location.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Also people looking for a flat should never send out rental deposits earlier to seeing the flat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealanders have supposedly been caught up in a most important international scam where fraudster go ahead and bid fake accommodation, and then they trick victims into sending across bond and rent cash. The scammers concerned are targeting flat-finder websites from all over the globe, and once they have successfully recognized contact with their home-hunting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[33,38],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-news","tag-scam-awareness","tag-scam-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}