{"id":103,"date":"2006-12-20T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2007-01-02T09:24:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T17:24:44","slug":"google-alert-email-scam-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2006\/12\/google-alert-email-scam-88\/","title":{"rendered":"New UK Report on Mass-Marketed Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/cybercrimelaw.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/new-uk-report-on-mass-marketed-scams.html\">New UK Report on Mass-Marketed <strong>Scams<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<font size=\"-1\"><br \/>\n<\/font><font color=\"#666666\">By Jon Rusch<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\nToday, the United Kingdom Office of Fair Trading (OFT) issued a study on the<br \/>\nimpact of mass-marketed <strong>scams<\/strong> (ie, <strong>scams<\/strong> using direct mail, telemarketing, <strong>email<\/strong>,<br \/>\nand the Internet) on UK consumers. Here are some of the OFT&#8217;s more intriguing <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n<font color=\"green\"><br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/cybercrimelaw.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/cybercrimelaw.blogspot.com\">Dipping Through Geometries &#8211; http:\/\/cybercrimelaw.blogspot.com<br \/>\n<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nestmannblog.sovereignsociety.com\/2006\/12\/your_inbox_is_u.html\">Your In-box is Under Attack\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 How to Fight Back<\/a><br \/>\n<font size=\"-1\"><br \/>\n<\/font><font color=\"#666666\">By Mark Nestmann<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\nAvoid &#8220;pfishing&#8221; <strong>scams<\/strong>. In a pfishing <strong>scam<\/strong>, you receive a bogus <strong>e-mail<\/strong>, allegedly from a bank or online merchant. The message contains a link routing you to an authentic-looking, but phony, Web site where you&#8217;re asked to enter sensitive <strong>information\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><font color=\"green\"><a title=\"http:\/\/nestmannblog.sovereignsociety.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/nestmannblog.sovereignsociety.com\/\"> http:\/\/nestmannblog.sovereignsociety.com\/<br \/>\n<\/a><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New UK Report on Mass-Marketed Scams By Jon Rusch Today, the United Kingdom Office of Fair Trading (OFT) issued a study on the impact of mass-marketed scams (ie, scams using direct mail, telemarketing, email, and the Internet) on UK consumers. Here are some of the OFT&#8217;s more intriguing &#8230; Dipping Through Geometries &#8211; http:\/\/cybercrimelaw.blogspot.com Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}