{"id":381,"date":"2005-01-10T08:09:46","date_gmt":"2005-01-10T12:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=381"},"modified":"2005-01-10T08:09:46","modified_gmt":"2005-01-10T12:09:46","slug":"fbi-warns-about-tsunami-spam-and-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/01\/10\/fbi-warns-about-tsunami-spam-and-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI warns about tsunami spam and scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\">CNN Money<\/a> has an article on the FBI&#8217;s recent statement about <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2005\/01\/07\/technology\/tsunami_scams\/?cnn=yes\">Tsunami relief scams<\/a> that are appearing on websites and spam mail.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, this would be the point where you&#8217;d expect a surprised exclamation about the fact that such a horrible event that&#8217;s resulted in more than 150,000 dead would be used so crassly and obviously to make quick money, but the truth is I doubt many of us are surprised by it happening.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s telling that when I checked my email in the days after the first reports started coming in I actually expected the folder where my spam filter places the unwanted email it detects to be filled with relief money request scams.  Unfortunately, I wasn&#8217;t disappointed, because within twenty four hours a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/419_scam\">419 scam<\/a> mail using the disaster as it&#8217;s base showed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN Money has an article on the FBI&#8217;s recent statement about Tsunami relief scams that are appearing on websites and spam mail. Normally, this would be the point where you&#8217;d expect a surprised exclamation about the fact that such a horrible event that&#8217;s resulted in more than 150,000 dead would be used so crassly and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/01\/10\/fbi-warns-about-tsunami-spam-and-scams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FBI warns about tsunami spam and scams&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}