{"id":218,"date":"2017-12-19T09:49:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/?p=218"},"modified":"2018-02-20T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:55:10","slug":"holiday-scam-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/holiday-scam-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Scam Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-222 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/files\/2017\/12\/Holiday-Scam-Wrap-up-1-300x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/files\/2017\/12\/Holiday-Scam-Wrap-up-1-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/files\/2017\/12\/Holiday-Scam-Wrap-up-1-768x644.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/files\/2017\/12\/Holiday-Scam-Wrap-up-1-358x300.png 358w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/files\/2017\/12\/Holiday-Scam-Wrap-up-1.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are three scams you should know about this holiday season:<\/p>\n<p>1) &#8220;You&#8217;ve won&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0callers tell you you\u2019ve won something, but claim you need to pay a fee to collect the winnings or prize. If you win something, they will pay you\u2014not the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>2) \u201cYou\u2019ve got a package\u201d &#8211; scammers send you a text message stating that a mystery package has been delivered to your local post office. Do not click on any links in the text message or reply. If you have questions about a package delivery, contact the US Postal Service directly at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usps.com\">www.usps.com<\/a> or call 1-800-ASK-USPS (1-800-275-8777).<\/p>\n<p>3) Utility disconnection &#8211; callers claim to be the power company and threaten to disconnect service if money is not sent immediately. Your power company does not make threats like this. This is a scam!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are three scams you should know about this holiday season: 1) &#8220;You&#8217;ve won&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0callers tell you you\u2019ve won something, but claim you need to pay a fee to collect the winnings or prize. If you win something, they will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/holiday-scam-wrap-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[481474,482450],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-consumer","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}