{"id":1175,"date":"2013-10-03T09:35:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T07:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plettcomputers.co.za\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2013-10-03T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T07:35:16","slug":"microsoft-technician-phone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plettcomputers.co.za\/microsoft-technician-phone-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft technician phone scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft issued a warning to South African&#8217;s urging them to be wary about a phone scam where perpetrators claim to be Microsoft \/ Computer Technicians. If someone cold calls you claiming to be a computer technician (support person etc.) \u00a0and that your computer is at risk, ignore it. They usually urge you to install &#8220;security&#8221; software or get you to part with personal information.<\/p>\n<p>A few basic pieces of advice can help local consumers from being taken in by this and other scams:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never provide personal information, such as credit card or bank details, over the telephone;<\/li>\n<li>Never install anything, visit any web sites or follow any other instruction given to you by a stranger on the phone;<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that your operating system is fully updated and that any security updates have been downloaded; and<\/li>\n<li>Make sure your system is protected by strong passwords, which are changed regularly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Full story on\u00a0fin24.com &gt; <a title=\"Microsoft: Watch out for scammers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/MyFin24\/Microsoft-Watch-out-for-scammers-20130926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft issued a warning to South African&#8217;s urging them to be wary about a phone scam where perpetrators claim to be Microsoft \/ Computer Technicians. If someone cold calls you claiming to be a computer technician (support person etc.) \u00a0and that your computer is at risk, ignore it. They usually urge you to install &#8220;security&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[328],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plettcomputers.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plettcomputers.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plettcomputers.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plettcomputers.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plettcomputers.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plettcomputers.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plettcomputers.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plettcomputers.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plettcomputers.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}