{"id":13361,"date":"2010-06-28T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-28T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T08:33:00","slug":"lg-hoax-sms-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/13361-lg-hoax-sms-warning.html","title":{"rendered":"LG hoax SMS warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;We urge consumers not to fall prey to this hoax and not to provide any personal or banking details in response to the SMS&rdquo; says Dr Michelle Potgieter, Marketing and Communications Director for LG Electronics South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This communication is not generated by LGESA. It is a hoax and a scam intended to abuse the credibility of LGESA with the intention of fraudulently obtaining highly confidential information from the recipient of the communication,&rdquo; explains Potgieter.<\/p>\n<p>LGESA cautions all recipients against disclosing any personal and\/or confidential information in response to such communication as LGESA will not be held liable for any resultant loss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LG Electronics has urged consumers to take heed of a hoax SMS currently in circulation, which falsely claims that the recipient of the SMS has won a sum of money from LGESA. The communication appears to be official but it is in reality a scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13361"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}