{"id":142,"date":"2012-03-20T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T20:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2012-03-20T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T20:45:52","slug":"shaw-email-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Shaw Email Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-143\" title=\"ShawScam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ShawScam-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ShawScam-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ShawScam.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/>Recently a customer received a scam (phishing) email in their inbox. \u00a0After having trouble filling out all the information requested they called me for help. \u00a0I quickly told them that the email was a scam and to call Shaw and change their password. \u00a0No company will ever contact you asking for any personal information or passwords. \u00a0If in doubt call the company on the phone to double check (make sure to get the phone number from their invoice). Here is what the email looked like so you can make sure to avoid the scam in the future:<\/p>\n<p>Subject: Alert<\/p>\n<p>Contents:<\/p>\n<p>Dear\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3333ff;\">Shaw.ca<\/span>\u00a0Account User,<\/p>\n<p>You have exceeded the limit of your\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3333ff;\">Shaw.ca<\/span>\u00a0mailbox set by your\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3333ff;\">Shaw.ca<\/span>\u00a0Communications Web service, and you will be having problems in sending and receiving mails, you may loose all your information&#8217;s when your account is finally disabled. To prevent this\u00a0 kindly\u00a0CLICK HERE\u00a0to visit our\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3333ff;\">Shaw.ca<\/span>\u00a0Accounts Verification System to upgrade your\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3333ff;\">Shaw.ca<\/span>\u00a0web account so that your\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3333ff;\">Shaw.ca<\/span>\u00a0web account can be fully activated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a customer received a scam (phishing) email in their inbox. \u00a0After having trouble filling out all the information requested they called me for help. \u00a0I quickly told them that the email was a scam and to call Shaw and change their password. \u00a0No company will ever contact you asking for any personal information or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersonwheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}