{"id":1073,"date":"2022-07-19T12:33:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2022-07-19T12:33:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:33:04","slug":"grand-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/07\/19\/grand-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you receive an email out of the blue from someone you don&#8217;t know, and it offers something of value for free, be extremely wary. More likely than not, the offer is a scam.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on these types of scams, see <a href=\"https:\/\/it.brown.edu\/phish-bowl-alerts\/grand-piano-scam\">this article from Brown University&#8217;s Phish Bowl Alerts.<\/a> The scammers seem to try to defraud their victims by charging them a fee to move the piano, but it never arrives. Being told to pay to receive an item sight unseen is another sign it&#8217;s a scam.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1074\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/07\/2022-07-19-piano-scam.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/07\/2022-07-19-piano-scam.png 778w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/07\/2022-07-19-piano-scam-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/07\/2022-07-19-piano-scam-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you receive an email out of the blue from someone you don&#8217;t know, and it offers something of value for free, be extremely wary. More likely than not, the offer is a scam. For more information on these types of scams, see this article from Brown University&#8217;s Phish Bowl Alerts. The scammers seem to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/07\/19\/grand-piano\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grand Piano<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}