{"id":108488,"date":"2021-12-02T22:44:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T03:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=108488"},"modified":"2021-12-02T22:45:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T03:45:40","slug":"dont-get-scammed-this-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=108488","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Get Scammed This Holiday Season&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=108488\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=108488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-108489 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/blog-800x400-spear-phishing_1-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/blog-800x400-spear-phishing_1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/blog-800x400-spear-phishing_1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/blog-800x400-spear-phishing_1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Janet Grace <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi, Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I received an email from my bank regarding how NOT to get scammed. I found it worthy of sharing because we all shop online and the cyber crime is real.<\/p>\n<p>So, I quote from them to you:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to spot a phishing email:<\/p>\n<p>If the email is from a trusted source but unexpected, call or email the sender to confirm that they sent it.<\/p>\n<p>Review the sender address. Cover your mouse over the email address and a pop up reveals the sender&#8217;s email address. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Examine the recipient address phishers often make this entry appear as blank (either by accident or design). Seeing an empty recipient field is a good indicator that this is a bogus email.<\/p>\n<p>Does the subject line make sense? Scammers often get sloppy and mix the subject and content between scams. Review the body of the email and look for type-o errors, incorrect salutations or signature blocks and unclear images.<\/p>\n<p>Hover your mouse over all links before clicking on them.<\/p>\n<p>Look at all email attachments before you click to download. If the file format doesn&#8217;t make sense, delete the email.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let your holiday plans be ruined by scammers and fishing emails spotting scams like any other skill takes time and practice the more you practice the safer you will be.<br \/>\nI hope this will hip you to what&#8217;s so, and keep you safe.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed be, Y\u2019all.<\/p>\n<p>Till next time.<\/p>\n<p>I invite all my readers to subscribe to my show: Janet Grace: Inside The Mind Of Me Podcast Show on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/user\/MsJG23\"><b><i>YouTube<\/i><\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>Peace\/Out:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>JG )O(<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Janet Grace Hi, Everyone, I received an email from my bank regarding how NOT to get scammed. I found it worthy of sharing because we all shop online and the cyber crime is real. So, I quote from them to you: Here&#8217;s how to spot a phishing email: If the email is from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[27876],"class_list":["post-108488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-dont-get-scammed-this-holiday-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108488"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}