{"id":1744,"date":"2007-10-25T08:06:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T06:06:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-10-25T08:06:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T06:06:02","slug":"saps-email-a-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/1744-saps-email-a-hoax.html","title":{"rendered":"SAPS email a hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An e-mail containing a photograph of a decapitated body of a boy and urging people to contact the police child protection unit is a hoax, police said on Wednesday. &quot;The latest hoax e-mail contains disturbing photographs of the body of an unknown decapitated boy,&quot; said the SAPS. <\/p>\n<p>The e-mail then apparently urges people to add their name to a list and submit it to police. <\/p>\n<p>However police said the email address it is meant to be sent to &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:childprotectpca@saps.org.za\">childprotectpca@saps.org.za<\/a> &#8211; does not exist. <\/p>\n<p>The SAPS said it had no involvement in the compilation or distribution of hoax e-mails. <\/p>\n<p>Hoax e-mails about the closure of child protection units, kidnappings, rapes and HIV\/Aids have been circulating since 1995. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The main and only aspect which has changed over the years, is the severity of the false information,&quot; said SAPS. <\/p>\n<p>The SAPS urged people not to forward this e-mails to family, friends or police. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;This results in a waste of valuable time which could be utilized to attend to serious and urgent matters.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The police said the protection of children remained a priority in its service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An e-mail containing a photograph of a decapitated body of a boy and urging people to contact the police child protection unit is a hoax<\/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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744"}],"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=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}