{"id":442,"date":"2010-02-18T07:42:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2024-01-04T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:53:18","slug":"smishing-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/awareness\/smishing-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Smishing Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ol>\n<li>This <strong>Smishing Scam<\/strong> is a latest type of<strong> Scam.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Smishing Scams<\/strong> are similar to <strong>Phishing Scams<\/strong> but instead of sending e-mails, this <strong>smishing<\/strong> <strong>scammer<\/strong> uses <strong>\u201cPhony Messages\u201d<\/strong> to trace your account pin codes and other details.<\/li>\n<li>Now-a-days thieves are using the latest technology to trace out the victims.<\/li>\n<li>Then to trace out your account details, they are sending text messages by using popular Bank<\/li>\n<li>Names like an emergency alerts. Like,<strong> \u201cDiscrepancy in your records. So call this number immediately.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This alert may force the victim to call the given phone number.<\/li>\n<li>This may help the<strong> scammer<\/strong> to trace the details of your account. So you may lose your account balance. (Ambien)<\/li>\n<li>These type of <strong>scammers<\/strong> are growing in numbers. So be alert when you reveal your details.<\/li>\n<li>Update yourself with the latest <a title=\"Scam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/\"><strong>Scam<\/strong><\/a> issues. So that you can protect yourselves from <strong>Scammers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Smishing Scam is a latest type of Scam. Smishing Scams are similar to Phishing Scams but instead of sending e-mails, this smishing scammer uses \u201cPhony Messages\u201d to trace your account pin codes and other details. Now-a-days thieves are using the latest technology to trace out the victims. Then to trace out your account details, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[35,108],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-information","tag-phishing-scam","tag-phone-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3023,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}