{"id":2263,"date":"2014-10-02T19:31:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2014-10-02T19:41:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:41:31","slug":"1-718-709-7573-phishing-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/02\/1-718-709-7573-phishing-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"1-718-709-7573 Phishing Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going through some spam traps, I found I received a fake IRS e-mail today that was a phishing scam. It included a fake W-8BEN form as a PDF to fill in and to fax to a number listed on the form. <\/p>\n<p>When I googled the fax number (1-718-709-7573), I was amazed to see that the same scam <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kellyphillipserb\/2014\/03\/28\/tax-scammers-to-the-left-of-me-tax-schemers-to-the-right-of-me\/\">had already been written about<\/a> on other websites six months earlier. I rang the number from a Skype account and heard the unmistakable sounds of a fax machine. <\/p>\n<p>Presumably this means that the phone number still hadn&#8217;t been shut down after half a year. <\/p>\n<p>Somebody is making it too easy for criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going through some spam traps, I found I received a fake IRS e-mail today that was a phishing scam. It included a fake W-8BEN form as a PDF to fill in and to fax to a number listed on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/02\/1-718-709-7573-phishing-scam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud","category-scams","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}