{"id":2504,"date":"2016-02-01T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T03:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2016-02-01T12:30:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T03:30:02","slug":"eu-business-register-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/01\/eu-business-register-spammers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;EU Business Register&#8221; spammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is some spam sent to one of my mailboxes recently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>In order to have your company inserted in the EU Business Register for 2016\/2017, please print, complete and submit the attached form (PDF file) to the following address:<\/p>\n<p>EU BUSINESS REGISTER<br \/>\nP.O. BOX 34<br \/>\n3700 AA ZEIST<br \/>\nTHE NETHERLANDS<\/p>\n<p>Fax: +31 30 310 0126<\/p>\n<p>You can also attach the completed form in a reply to this email.<\/p>\n<p>Updating is free of charge!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A very deceptive offer, because even though updates may well be free (as stated), the offer itself is not: A careful reading of the small print in the attached PDF revealed it to be a solicitation for a three year subscription at 995 EUR per year, automatically renewing unless cancelled two months in advance. So filling and signing the form would cost you at least 2985 EUR.<\/p>\n<p>A quick Google search showed that these guys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spamhaus.org\/rokso\/evidence\/ROK9308\/world-company-register-eu-business-register\/EU%20Business%20Register\">are already known to Spamhaus<\/a>, who think that they&#8217;re from Romania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is some spam sent to one of my mailboxes recently: Hello, In order to have your company inserted in the EU Business Register for 2016\/2017, please print, complete and submit the attached form (PDF file) to the following address: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/01\/eu-business-register-spammers\/\">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":[21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scams","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","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=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}