{"id":318,"date":"2011-07-28T14:13:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T13:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/?p=436"},"modified":"2011-07-28T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T13:13:54","slug":"telephone-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Telephone scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please be aware that there are a number of telephone scams going around. If you have caller line identification enabled, they will typically some up with &#8216;number unavailable&#8217; or &#8216;INTERNATIONAL&#8217;. One I have had a few times is someone saying they are from &#8216;Windows&#8217; saying that my computer is infected with a virus. Often with very poor english. The simplest way to deal with these calls is a very abrupt &#8211; <strong>not interested, thank you very much , goodbye<\/strong> and hang up. It&#8217;s just not worth talking to these people any longer than you have to.<\/p>\n<p>We also have registered with the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpsonline.org.uk\/tps\/\" target=\"_blank\"> telephone preference service<\/a>, this should stop unwanted calls, but not international ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember NEVER give you credit card or bank details to anyone who has called you over the phone unless you are ABSOLUTELY sure who they are.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can read more about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheshire.police.uk\/news--appeals\/latest-news\/2011\/07\/police-warn-cheshire-residents.aspx?lang=en-gb\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please be aware that there are a number of telephone scams going around. If you have caller line identification enabled, they will typically some up with &#8216;number unavailable&#8217; or &#8216;INTERNATIONAL&#8217;. One I have had a few times is someone saying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/?p=318\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homewatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}