{"id":25341,"date":"2017-01-29T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T21:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25341"},"modified":"2017-01-29T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T21:32:48","slug":"the-can-you-hear-me-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25341","title":{"rendered":"The \"can you hear me\" scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/beware-new-can-you-hear-me-scam\/\">It\u2019s not a Verizon commercial<\/a>: If you receive a phone call from someone asking \u201ccan you hear me,\u201d hang up. You\u2019re a potential victim in the latest scam circulating around the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>Virginia police are now warning about the scheme, which also sparked warnings by Pennsylvania authorities late last year. The \u201ccan you hear me\u201d con is actually a variation on earlier scams aimed at getting the victim to say the word \u201cyes\u201d in a phone conversation. That affirmative response is recorded by the fraudster and used to authorize unwanted charges on a phone or utility bill or on a purloined credit card.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not a Verizon commercial: If you receive a phone call from someone asking \u201ccan you hear me,\u201d hang up. You\u2019re a potential victim in the latest scam circulating around the U.S. Virginia police are now warning about the scheme, which also sparked warnings by Pennsylvania authorities late last year. The \u201ccan you hear me\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25342,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25341\/revisions\/25342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}