{"id":634,"date":"2015-07-21T17:52:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T00:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2015-08-31T09:13:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T16:13:55","slug":"more-and-more-phone-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2015\/07\/21\/more-and-more-phone-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"More and more phone scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The July 2015 issue of <a title=\"Security Newsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vipreantivirus.com\/newsletters\/2015\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">VIPRE Security News<\/a> notes that: &#8220;Retail and finance call centre phone scamming in the US is up 30 percent according to research from Pindrop Security, a phone security company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attackers call across international borders at 10x the rate of legitimate callers. Spoofing technology allows attackers to hide their true automatic number identification and appear as a local call on Caller ID.<\/p>\n<p>Scammers are increasingly using VoIP and robodialers to mask incoming phone numbers and better target consumers. VoIP has minimized or eliminated the cost of phone calls, both domestic and international. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s the most common scam? As I&#8217;ve noted in other posts &#8212; phony technical support calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The July 2015 issue of VIPRE Security News notes that: &#8220;Retail and finance call centre phone scamming in the US is up 30 percent according to research from Pindrop Security, a phone security company.&#8221; Attackers call across international borders at 10x the rate of legitimate callers. Spoofing technology allows attackers to hide their true automatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[60,33],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-phone","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}