{"id":2790,"date":"2014-05-13T23:57:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T04:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2014-05-14T00:01:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T05:01:52","slug":"wtam-1100-911-texting-tech-support-phone-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2014\/05\/13\/wtam-1100-911-texting-tech-support-phone-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"WTAM 1100 &#8211; 911 Texting &#038; Tech Support Phone Scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2790-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WTAM-1100-May-13-2014-Text-911-Phone-Scammers.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WTAM-1100-May-13-2014-Text-911-Phone-Scammers.mp3\">http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WTAM-1100-May-13-2014-Text-911-Phone-Scammers.mp3<\/a><\/audio>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/wtam1100.jpg\" alt=\"WTAM 1100 Newsradio Cleveland Ohio\" width=\"133\" height=\"73\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2188\" \/>This week, I spoke to Bill Wills on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtam.com\/onair\/wills-snyder-in-the-morning-2395\/\">WTAM 1100 Newsradio<\/a> about how the national wireless carriers are going to enable the use of &#8220;text-to-911&#8221; to allow 911 emergencies to be reported through the standard text messaging system on your mobile phone. <\/p>\n<p>While the carriers will be supporting the service, <a href=\"http:\/\/transition.fcc.gov\/cgb\/text-to-911-deployments.pdf\">only a select few local city emergency systems<\/a> are setup to access that network. Visit the FCC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/text-to-911\">Text-to-911 page<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>I also brought up the continuing threat of phone scammers pretending to be your tech support company. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksquad.com\/intelligence\/blog\/phone-scams-and-computer-repair-know-your-facts-to-protect-your-computer\/\">Geek Squad Blog<\/a> has more details on this ongoing attempt to fool the public into giving criminals access to their systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This week, I spoke to Bill Wills on WTAM 1100 Newsradio about how the national wireless carriers are going to enable the use of &#8220;text-to-911&#8221; to allow 911 emergencies to be reported through the standard text messaging system on your mobile phone. While the carriers will be supporting the service, only a select few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2014\/05\/13\/wtam-1100-911-texting-tech-support-phone-scammers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WTAM 1100 &#8211; 911 Texting &#038; Tech Support Phone Scammers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,4],"tags":[68,42,323,363,283,449,293],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-geek-squad","tag-mobile-phones","tag-scammers","tag-security","tag-technology","tag-wtam-1100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}