{"id":234,"date":"2008-01-25T09:11:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2008-01-25T09:11:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:11:13","slug":"canadian-phone-scam-runs-up-big-long-distance-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2008\/01\/canadian-phone-scam-runs-up-big-long-distance-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Phone Scam runs up Big Long distance charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lh\">Canadian Telecom company, SaskTel is warning customers to be on the look-out for a telephone scam that could lead to unwanted long distance charges. In this scam, a person calls a customer claiming there has been an accident or some other incident. The caller then requests that the customer dial *72 followed by a long-distance telephone number. Since *72 is used to activate SaskTel&#8217;s call forwarding service, the customer unwittingly forwards their phone line to a long distance number and is then responsible for all resulting long distance charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Telecom company, SaskTel is warning customers to be on the look-out for a telephone scam that could lead to unwanted long distance charges. In this scam, a person calls a customer claiming there has been an accident or some other incident. The caller then requests that the customer dial *72 followed by a long-distance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,13],"tags":[33,34,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"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=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}