{"id":913,"date":"2010-06-21T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=913"},"modified":"2010-06-21T09:16:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:16:46","slug":"beware-gift-card-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"Beware gift card SPAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If my SPAM filter was less efficient I might have alerted people to the abundance of gift card scams that exist via SPAM earlier, but alas, someone recently forwarded me what I am sure people are getting every day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Screen-shot-2010-06-21-at-9.09.01-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-914\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-06-21 at 9.09.01 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Screen-shot-2010-06-21-at-9.09.01-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Screen-shot-2010-06-21-at-9.09.01-AM.png 660w, http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Screen-shot-2010-06-21-at-9.09.01-AM-251x300.png 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a>These scams are no different than the ones that have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=630\" target=\"_blank\">flourished on Facebook<\/a> in the last several months, namely, they are too good to be true.\u00a0 In order to qualify for the free gift card, you would have to jump through quite a few hoops, including purchasing products and taking out a loan.<\/p>\n<p>The real goal of scams like this is to harvest personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If my SPAM filter was less efficient I might have alerted people to the abundance of gift card scams that exist via SPAM earlier, but alas, someone recently forwarded me what I am sure people are getting every day. These scams are no different than the ones that have flourished on Facebook in the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}