{"id":832,"date":"2011-07-11T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T09:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=832"},"modified":"2023-02-03T12:44:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:44:39","slug":"foreign-lottery-scams-you-cant-come-to-the-contest-you-didnt-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/email-scam\/foreign-lottery-scams-you-cant-come-to-the-contest-you-didnt-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign lottery scams: You cannot come to the contest you did not succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Best wishes! You are our 0 million sweepstakes victory! (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasflange.com\/ambien-zolpidem\/\">texasflange<\/a>)  Sound recognizable? Scams like this mingle daily. Their objective is to get your money or personal information. 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Whether you obtain notification via telephone, e-mail or direct mail effective you that you have won foreign lotteries from Canada or beginning as far away as Europe, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,61,60,3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-commercial-scam","category-cyber-scam","category-email-scam","category-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","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=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}