{"id":1089,"date":"2003-04-24T10:02:35","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T17:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/04\/24\/1089.html"},"modified":"2003-04-24T10:02:35","modified_gmt":"2003-04-24T17:02:35","slug":"paypal-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/04\/24\/paypal-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Btw, if you get email that purports to be from PayPal and it wants you to fill in a form (a form in the email message itself, not on the web&#8212;this is irrelevant to those of you who don't use HTML-enabled email software) that includes your credit card number, <strong>don't do it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It's a scam.  Everything about the email looks official, including the return address and the logo and various links to the PayPal site, but if you click the submit-the-form button, your credit card info is sent to a scammer.<\/p>\n<p>Never ever use a PayPal form that arrives in email.  And if you go to a PayPal page to fill in a form because of something emailed to you, always check the URL in your browser to make sure that the domain name ends in \"paypal.com\/\" (with nothing else before the slash!  \"paypal.com.scammer.bozo.com\/\" is no good!).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Btw, if you get email that purports to be from PayPal and it wants you to fill in a form&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}