{"id":549095,"date":"2006-06-07T07:15:09","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T07:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549095-beware-world-cup-email-scam.html"},"modified":"2006-06-07T07:15:09","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T07:15:09","slug":"beware-world-cup-email-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549095-beware-world-cup-email-scam.html","title":{"rendered":"Beware: World Cup email scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Inspector Percy Morokane said police had received a number of complaints from potential victims of the &quot;SA 2010 World Cup Bid Lottery&quot; scam. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Morokane said victims were notified via email that they have won the lottery. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>A certificate confirming the prize would then be issued and the victim would be asked to complete a number of forms online. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;In the process unknowingly disclosing his or her private and confidential details.&quot; The victim would then be informed of the procedure to claim the cash, but an up front payment would be requested before the rest of the cash was released. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;We strongly warn the South African public and the international community about this and similar scams.&quot; <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Morokane urged anyone who had received such emails to call 012-401-3345 or 012-393-1203 or fax 012-401-3369 or 012-393-1202 or\u00a0email: hq.commercial@saps.org.za <\/font><\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police warned the public against letters circulated via email falsely promising large lottery payouts linked to the Soccer World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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-549095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549095"}],"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=549095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}