{"id":44303,"date":"2013-09-17T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/44303\/another-scam-doing-the-roundsorbeware-of-who-you-give-your-information-to\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T09:40:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T07:40:47","slug":"another-scam-doing-the-roundsorbeware-of-who-you-give-your-information-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2013\/09\/17\/another-scam-doing-the-roundsorbeware-of-who-you-give-your-information-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Another scam doing the rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An outraged resident, Germiston writes:<\/p>\n<p>I would like to take a moment to warn others of the latest scam that is doing the rounds.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I recently received what I assumed was an innocent phone call.<\/p>\n<p>The person who called informed me that they were calling from a private investigation company.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The caller then proceeded to ask for the last four digits found on the back of my credit card.<\/p>\n<p>These four digits are vital for any transaction made by\/on your credit card when shopping online.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to remind people in the community not to fall for this scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Never give anyone the last four digits of any credit card as you could be setting yourself up for trouble.<\/p>\n<p>No one wants to find themselves in debt, when they haven&#8217;t spent a cent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='09c78eadbbf513faae71c1067658e4be'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware of who you give your information to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":44529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[8297,989,1012,1003,979,1167,1323],"class_list":["post-44303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-opinion-2","tag-warning"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","opinion","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}