{"id":175221,"date":"2016-08-08T14:46:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T12:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=175221"},"modified":"2016-08-08T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T12:49:14","slug":"2016-rio-olympics-scammers-using-co-za-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/175221-2016-rio-olympics-scammers-using-co-za-domain.html","title":{"rendered":"2016 Rio Olympics scammers using co.za domain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scammers trying to steal people\u2019s money by telling them they have won R1.75 million in a 2016 Rio Olympics Promotion are using a co.za domain name.<\/p>\n

The scammers are targeting South Africans, with\u00a0the co.za domain name part of the ploy.<\/p>\n

The domain, vavosascofirm.co.za, was anonymously registered<\/strong><\/a> using the service Domains By Proxy.<\/p>\n

Domains By Proxy hides the identity of people who register a domain and do not want their personal information available in the Whois directory.<\/p>\n

The scam email, which was sent from the name \u201cMcCann, Lisbeth\u201d reads:<\/p>\n

Your RSA Email has won R1.75M in the 2016 Rio Olympic Promotions with Ref: BRZ\/SA\/01\/08\/16. Contact; claims@vavosascofirm.co.za or 00447937349377. T’s and C’s apply!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Users who receive this email are advised to ignore it.<\/p>\n

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Scammers trying to steal people\u2019s money by telling them they have won R1.75 million in a 2016 Rio Olympics promotion are using a co.za domain name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":174912,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,61,38459,38457],"class_list":["post-175221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-co-za","tag-domains-by-proxy","tag-scammer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175221"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175249,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175221\/revisions\/175249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}