{"id":619380,"date":"2022-06-24T15:01:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T15:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=619380"},"modified":"2022-06-24T15:01:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T15:01:43","slug":"scam-covid-19-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/scam-covid-19-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Scam Covid-19 Messages?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Since the beginning of Covid-19, the UK managed to make a quick and effective way to find out if someone in your area or near you had Covid-19, this involved an app that tracked you. Some people have managed to find a way to get behind this and scam a lot of people out of their money!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been reported by the NHS that a scam text message has been going around scamming those about Covid-19 packages!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen reports of fake NHS text messages about ordering Omicron Covid-19 test kits,&#8221; NHS tweeted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The text message would make the average person pay for an online testing kit, which isn&#8217;t a thing anymore and you can buy a local test anywhere, which takes you to a page to add all your details.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning ultimately, you lose all your money. This could result in a lot of issues nowadays, as prices are going up due to the ongoing war!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_619402\" style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-619402\" class=\"wp-image-619402 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/125569714_thumbnail_picture2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/125569714_thumbnail_picture2.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/125569714_thumbnail_picture2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-619402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Provided by BBC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is just one of the messages you may receive about Covid-19, do not click the link!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As a result, we have received 12 million red flags from the public to potential phishing attacks &#8211; leading to more than 80,000 scams being removed from the internet,&#8221; said the City of London Police!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of Covid-19, the UK managed to make a quick and effective way to find out if someone in your area or near you had Covid-19, this involved an app that tracked you. Some people have managed to find a way to get behind this and scam a lot of people out of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":619403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[1844,1853,1851,2071],"class_list":["post-619380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-news","tag-covid-19-updates","tag-latest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619380","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619404,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619380\/revisions\/619404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}