{"id":105551,"date":"2020-04-17T00:03:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T07:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/do-not-click-the-link-police-warn-of-scam-covid-19-text-messages"},"modified":"2020-04-17T05:36:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T12:36:12","slug":"do-not-click-the-link-police-warn-of-scam-covid-19-text-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/do-not-click-the-link-police-warn-of-scam-covid-19-text-messages","title":{"rendered":"\u2018DO NOT click the link\u2019; Police warn of scam COVID-19 text messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-not-click-the-link-police-warn-of-scam-covid-19-text-messages.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scam alert.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>THOMASTON, Me. (WSET) \u2014 Police are warning cell phone users of a new text message scam during the coronavirus pandemic. The Thomaston Police Department in Maine posted on Facebook a photo of the alert being sent to people in a text message. The message was sent to someone in Maine from an Indiana area code telling them they need to self-isolate because they came in contact with someone who tested positive or has shown symptoms for coronavirus. The alert also tells you to get tested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scam alert. THOMASTON, Me. (WSET) \u2014 Police are warning cell phone users of a new text message scam during the coronavirus pandemic. The Thomaston Police Department in Maine posted on Facebook a photo of the alert being sent to people in a text message. The message was sent to someone in Maine from an Indiana [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105553,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105551\/revisions\/105553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}