{"id":183262,"date":"2016-10-18T09:58:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T07:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=183262"},"modified":"2016-10-18T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T07:59:50","slug":"watch-out-for-this-vodacom-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/183262-watch-out-for-this-vodacom-scam.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for this Vodacom scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has warned customers to be aware of a scam where fraudsters attempt to harvest personal information.<\/p>\n<p>The company said several customers have been asked\u00a0to provide personal information by fraudsters pretending to be Vodacom by using a fake Facebook account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important to stress that Vodacom will never ask customers for sensitive information through social media and, in particular, PIN codes linked to bank accounts,&#8221; said Vodacom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vodacom advises customers to remain vigilant and be aware that fraudsters employ a variety of techniques to solicit personal or other confidential information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/183096-mybroadband-war-drive-vodacom-vs-mtn-vs-cell-c-vs-telkom.html\">MyBroadband War Drive: Vodacom vs MTN vs Cell C vs Telkom<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has warned customers to be aware of a scam where fraudsters attempt to harvest personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":172854,"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":[14],"tags":[36,1271,41],"class_list":["post-183262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-scam","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183262"}],"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=183262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183288,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183262\/revisions\/183288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}