{"id":10242,"date":"2018-12-07T11:38:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T11:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=10242"},"modified":"2018-12-07T11:38:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T11:38:16","slug":"police-warn-o2-users-of-the-current-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/police-warn-o2-users-of-the-current-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"Police warn O2 users of the current prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have warned of a \u201csocial media prank\u201d targeting customers of mobile operator O2 that directs them through to the emergency 99 operator.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10243\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10243\" class=\"wp-image-10243 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/shutterstock_184016264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/shutterstock_184016264.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/shutterstock_184016264-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/shutterstock_184016264-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/shutterstock_184016264-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/shutterstock_184016264-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock<br \/>By 360b<br \/>Royalty-free stock photo ID: 184016264<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tens of millions of people around the world were affected by the disruption with the phone company O2\u2019s data serviced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe Twitter'>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apparently there is something circulating on social media advising O2 customers to ring 141999 to get a refund after the data issues yesterday. THIS IS A PRANK and will put you through to the emergency operator, please don\u2019t ring it. <br \/>Sgt Sam <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PSNICMC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PSNICMC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/team999?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#team999<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PSNI (@PoliceServiceNI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliceServiceNI\/status\/1070970297514385408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Police said: \u00a0&#8220;Apparently there is something circulating on social media advising O2 customers to ring 141999 to get a refund after the data issues yesterday,&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Police would not comment on how many have fell for the prank. O2 and mobile network equipment supplier Ericsson have issued a joint apology to the millions of customers hit by the disruption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to let our customers know how sorry I am for the impact our network data issue has had on them, and reassure them that our teams, together with Ericsson, are doing everything we can,&#8221; said O2 boss Mark Evans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We fully appreciate it&#8217;s been a poor experience and we are really sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have warned of a \u201csocial media prank\u201d targeting customers of mobile operator O2 that directs them through to the emergency 99 operator. Tens of millions of people around the world were affected by the disruption with the phone company O2\u2019s data serviced on Thursday. Apparently there is something circulating on social media advising O2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[333,335,113,334],"class_list":["post-10242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-o2","tag-phone","tag-police","tag-prank"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10244,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions\/10244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}