{"id":2673,"date":"2016-07-18T08:02:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T08:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2016-07-18T08:02:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T08:02:56","slug":"action-fraud-alert-upgrade-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/2016\/07\/18\/action-fraud-alert-upgrade-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Fraud Alert &#8211; Upgrade Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters are impersonating telephone service providers and contacting their clients offering a phone upgrade on a low monthly payment contract. The fraudsters will glean all your personal and financial details which will then be used to contact the genuine phone provider and order a new mobile phone handset. The fraudsters will either intercept the delivery before it reaches the victim\u2019s address or order the handset to a different address.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Protect yourself<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never provide your personal information to a third party from an unsolicited communication.<\/li>\n<li>Obtain the genuine number of the organisation being represented and verify the legitimacy of the communication.<\/li>\n<li>If the offer is too good to be true it probably is.<\/li>\n<li>If you have provided personal information and you are concerned that your identity may be compromised consider Cifas Protection Registration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have been a victim of fraud report it to Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters are impersonating telephone service providers and contacting their clients offering a phone upgrade on a low monthly payment contract. The fraudsters will glean all your personal and financial details which will then be used to contact the genuine phone provider and order a new mobile phone handset. The fraudsters will either intercept the delivery&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/2016\/07\/18\/action-fraud-alert-upgrade-fraud\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Action Fraud Alert &#8211; Upgrade Fraud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crimewatch","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/logo.gif?fit=121%2C93&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MmHE-H7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 00:40:12","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}