{"id":16139,"date":"2010-10-27T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-27T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T10:58:00","slug":"pick-n-pay-warns-customers-of-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/16139-pick-n-pay-warns-customers-of-scam.html","title":{"rendered":"Pick n Pay warns customers of scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement on Wednesday, the company said customers in the Western Cape area were receiving phone calls from a so-called agency conducting customer service surveys on behalf of Pick n Pay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the conversation, the caller attempts to elicit credit card and banking details.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company said it would like to alert customers to the fact that this &#8220;survey&#8221; was in no way sanctioned by Pick n Pay and that customers should not, under any circumstances, provide any sensitive information should they receive a call of this nature.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pick n Pay never conducts any research where people&#8217;s private banking details are requested,&#8221; spokeswoman Tamra Veley said.<\/p>\n<p>She urged customers to be on the lookout for the scam and never to give their banking details to any unauthorised party.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/279311-Pick-n-Pay-issues-scam-warning\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Pick n Pay warns customers of scam\">Pick n Pay warns customers of scam<\/a> <\/strong>&lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JSE-listed retailer Pick n Pay has warned customers of a telephone scam currently taking place in the Western Cape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139"}],"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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}