{"id":822,"date":"2007-01-15T00:17:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T17:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=822"},"modified":"2007-01-15T00:17:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T17:17:18","slug":"fbi-warns-of-twist-in-extortion-phishing-scam-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/fbi-warns-of-twist-in-extortion-phishing-scam-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI warns of twist in extortion phishing scam | CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/FBI+warns+of+twist+in+extortion+phishing+scam\/2100-7348_3-6150094.html?tag=alert\">FBI warns of twist in extortion phishing scam | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FBI officials are warning users of a new phishing scam that plays off a recent round of bogus extortion threats.<\/p>\n<p>The initial e-mails phishing for personal information were sent around last month, purportedly from a would-be hit man demanding users pay an extortion fee of thousands of dollars, or face death, according to an FBI advisory.<\/p>\n<p>The e-mail recipients were informed the so-called hit man had been hired by their friend to knock them off, but the hit man would forgo the job as long as a payment of several thousand dollars was made, according to the FBI advisory. Users were asked to quickly respond to the bogus e-mail and provide their telephone number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI warns of twist in extortion phishing scam | CNET News.com For more info click on above link FBI officials are warning users of a new phishing scam that plays off a recent round of bogus extortion threats. The initial e-mails phishing for personal information were sent around last month, purportedly from a would-be hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,35,29,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-government","category-scams-and-hoaxes","category-spam","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}