BOGUS TRAVEL EMERGENCY<\/p>\n
The email describes a travel nightmare: "Help! I've been robbed at gunpoint while visiting London and desperately need your assistance!" No money, no credit cards, no passport or cell phone – your friend is scared and stranded. What they need you to do is wire them some money quickly. Your instinct is to help your friend. But don't because it's probably a scam.<\/p>\n
\tFake emergency emails are being sent by scammers posing as a friend or family member. The messages come from cyber-thieves who gather contact information by either hijacking someone's email or social networking account, or by collecting the names of people who are cc:'d on mass emails. The scam message may come from an email address that looks a lot like your friend's real one.<\/p>\n
\tProtect yourself from the fake emergency email scam by taking the following precautions: <\/p>\n
\t* Always be skeptical of emails that describe an urgent need for you to wire money – no matter who it appears to be coming from. More often than not, if someone is requesting a money wire, it's a scam. <\/p>\n
\t* If you're suspicious, try to contact your friend to verify the emergency. If it is a scam, encourage them to warn their contacts about the phony email. \t* Protect your email and social networking accounts by using unique passwords that include numbers and capital letters. <\/p>\n \tAttorney General John Kroger and the Oregon Department of Justice are committed to protecting Oregon's marketplace and helping Oregon consumers. If you or someone you know has fallen victim to a fake emergency email scam, please call the Consumer Hotline at 1-877-877-9392 for assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BOGUS TRAVEL EMERGENCY The email describes a travel nightmare: "Help! I've been robbed at gunpoint while visiting London and desperately need your assistance!" No money, no credit cards, no passport or cell phone – your friend is scared and stranded. What they need you to do is wire them some money quickly. Your instinct is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1189],"tags":[1279,1351,1277],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-attorney-general-kroger","tag-bogus-travel-alert","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\t* When sending group emails always "bcc:" (blind carbon copy) your recipients. That way their names and email addresses are not visible after the email is sent.<\/span><\/p>\n