{"id":638,"date":"2010-11-13T05:37:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T05:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2024-01-04T11:45:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T11:45:19","slug":"public-notified-of-internet-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/comments-spam\/public-notified-of-internet-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Notified of Internet Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A suspected <strong>internet scam<\/strong> has been reported in <strong>south-east South Australia<\/strong>, said by <strong>Limestone Coast police<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police also said, though the <strong>scam<\/strong> has been recognized in further parts of the state but was reported in only in the south-east on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s found that a woman was called by man with a US accent stating him to be from <strong>Microsoft<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior Constable Paul Scicluna says the man administered to remotely access the woman\u2019s computer to remove inferred viruses and then demanded fee for the service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFirst thing they need to do is be vigilant in listening to what they\u2019re being asked. Don\u2019t be fooled into accepting the person is who they say they are just because they state they\u2019re from a reputable company like Microsoft,\u201d he alerted. (Ambien)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To be more aware from <strong>scams and spams types<\/strong> baiting us, visit <strong>RipandScam.com<\/strong> for <strong>rip off tips<\/strong> and information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suspected internet scam has been reported in south-east South Australia, said by Limestone Coast police. Police also said, though the scam has been recognized in further parts of the state but was reported in only in the south-east on Tuesday. It\u2019s found that a woman was called by man with a US accent stating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5,21,22,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-comments-spam","category-information","category-news","category-scam","category-security-breach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}