{"id":2790,"date":"2015-08-20T16:23:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T15:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2015-08-20T16:23:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T15:23:34","slug":"beware-tv-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/news\/beware-tv-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware TV Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h2><strong>Message sent by<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h2>Action Fraud (Action Fraud, Administrator, National)<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Fraudsters have created a high specification website template advertising flat screen televisions for sale which are below market value and do not exist. Payment is being requested via bank transfer and will offer no protection to the consumer when the television does not arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Protect yourself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Payments \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 made via bank transfer are not protected should you not receive the item.<\/li>\n<li>Always \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 make payment via a credit card or PayPal where you have some avenue of \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 recompense should you not receive your product.<\/li>\n<li>Conduct \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 some online research on the website, company name and business address to \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 identify any poor feedback or irregularities.<\/li>\n<li>Check \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the authenticity of websites before making any purchases. A \u201dwhois\u201d search \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 on the website will identify when the website has been created, so be wary \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of newly formed domains. This search can be conducted using the following \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 website &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/who.is\/\">https:\/\/who.is\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the item advertised seems too good to be true, it probably is<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you believe that you have been a victim of fraud you can report it online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/report_fraud\">http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/report_fraud<\/a> or by telephone on 0300 123 2040.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message sent by Action Fraud (Action Fraud, Administrator, National) &nbsp; Fraudsters have created a high specification website template advertising flat screen televisions for sale which are below market value and do not exist. Payment is being requested via bank transfer and will offer no protection to the consumer when the television does not arrive. Protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}