{"id":1088,"date":"2008-09-08T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2008-09-08T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T08:29:09","slug":"damn-that-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1088","title":{"rendered":"Damn that scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe it? About 3 million Britons are being cheated of \u00a33.5 billion a year by fraudsters who solicit money by letter, email, text and telephone, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oft.gov.uk\/news\/press\/2008\/103-08\">Office of Fair Trading<\/a> states today.<br \/>\nFewer than one in 20 victims report their experience, but trading watchdogs hope to help consumers fight back after a survey revealed the scale of the problem for the first time.<br \/>\nFurther information and samples of scams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/money\/2008\/sep\/08\/scamsandfraud\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe it? About 3 million Britons are being cheated of \u00a33.5 billion a year by fraudsters who solicit money by letter, email, text and telephone, the Office of Fair Trading states today. Fewer than one in 20 victims report their experience, but trading watchdogs hope to help consumers fight back after a survey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}