{"id":11527,"date":"2010-02-18T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-18T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:39:00","slug":"telecoms-company-searches-for-foul-mouthed-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/11527-telecoms-company-searches-for-foul-mouthed-employee.html","title":{"rendered":"Telecoms company searches for foul mouthed employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hunt began when a woman in the North Island city of Wanganui said that after complaining to Telecom about the time it took for text messages to arrive from family members, she received a message apparently from a customer service representative saying &#8220;f*** you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Telecom spokesman Nick Brown said initial investigations showed that similar messages may have been sent to four other customers from an eTXT website, which allowed a computer user to send a text message to a cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>He said the computer used could be anywhere around the world and fraud and technical experts were working to identify the internet addresses involved.<\/p>\n<p>Telecom New Zealand has 7,000 employees in New Zealand and 1,600 in Australia, and call centres in the Philippines and elsewhere around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?217299-New-Zealand-telecoms-company-searches-for-foul-mouthed-employee&amp;p=3630077\">Telecoms company searches for foul mouthed employee <\/a><\/strong>&lt;&lt; Discussion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom New Zealand, the country&#039;s biggest telecommunications company, said Thursday that it was carrying out a &quot;thorough and urgent&quot; investigation to find the person who sent abusive text messages to at least five customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}