{"id":416,"date":"2010-01-25T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2024-01-04T12:51:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:51:35","slug":"valentines-day-phishing-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/security-breach\/valentines-day-phishing-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day Phishing Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Valentine\u2019s Day is a day of romance and expressions of love but if you\u2019re careless you could fall as a victim to a Valentine\u2019s Day scam.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/valentines-day-phishing-scams.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-417\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/valentines-day-phishing-scams.jpg\" alt=\"valentines-day-phishing-scams\" width=\"262\" height=\"212\" hspace=\"10px\" vspace=\"10px\" \/><\/a>As February 14th approaches we come to expect advertising pitches and eCards to appear in our mailboxes related to Valentine\u2019s Day. Crooks are well aware of this and they use this time of year to trick the innocent into divulging their personal and financial information. One such phishing scheme involves an email representing that the flowers you ordered for your sweetie won\u2019t be delivered unless you log in and re-enter your credit card.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">What are the probabilities that an important number of these messages are going to make people that have ordered flowers? None of them wants their loved one to think that they\u2019ve forgotten them on Valentine\u2019s Day! If you click the link in that email and go into your credit card number you could have a real trouble once you get your next statement. Even if you think a message like this is genuine, go openly to the florist\u2019s website or call them on the phone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/tips.php\">same rules<\/a> are relevant all year long. Treat any email message like this doubtfully and always go openly to the website rather than clicking a link in an email no matter how genuine it seems.<\/p>\n<p>(Kbeautypharm)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine\u2019s Day is a day of romance and expressions of love but if you\u2019re careless you could fall as a victim to a Valentine\u2019s Day scam. As February 14th approaches we come to expect advertising pitches and eCards to appear in our mailboxes related to Valentine\u2019s Day. Crooks are well aware of this and they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[35,40],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-security-breach","tag-phishing-scam","tag-valentines-day-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3022,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/3022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}