{"id":5073,"date":"2008-09-03T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-03T06:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T04:46:00","slug":"post-office-warns-against-car-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/5073-post-office-warns-against-car-scam.html","title":{"rendered":"Post Office warns against &#039;car&#039; scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;This message, which originates from a telephone number in Kenya, also requests the receiver to purchase postal orders of various amounts and post them to an address in Kenya,&quot; the SA Post Office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Three consecutive messages are left on the phone, starting with the announcement that the person had won a car, followed by a request for R2000 to be paid into a Kenyan bank account.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The third message would read: &#8216;After sending the money we shall send you the flight number, the date and time of departure and arrival in Oliver Tambo Int. Airport. Thank you&#8217;. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the scam can contact the Post Office&#8217;s crimebuster hotline on 0800-020-070.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SA Post Office warned the public on Monday against a scam in which potential victims are told they have won a car. <\/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-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073"}],"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=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}