{"id":23187,"date":"2017-08-10T11:32:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T10:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=23187"},"modified":"2017-08-10T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T10:32:46","slug":"royal-mail-issue-warning-fake-missed-delivery-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/10\/royal-mail-issue-warning-fake-missed-delivery-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mail issue warning over fake \u2018missed delivery\u2019 cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Royal Mail and Action Fraud are urgently warning residents of a new scam which involves households receiving \u2018something for you\u2019 cards designed to look like they have come from Royal Mail.<\/h2>\n<p>The cards urge recipients to call a 0208 number, which is not registered with Royal Mail, where they are put through to an automated message which asks for their details and consignment number.<\/p>\n<p>Households are warned that these cards do not feature the Royal Mail logo but otherwise look almost identical to the \u2018something for you\u2019 cards delivered by the organization when a delivery has been missed.<\/p>\n<p>There have been reports that victims of the scam have been charged \u00a345 when they have called the number.<\/p>\n<p>A photo of one of the fake cards shows the recipient\u2019s address handwritten in the top left box.<\/p>\n<p>A Royal spokesperson said of the issue: \u201cThe Royal Mail security team is looking into this incident as a matter of urgency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Customers should check delivery cards very carefully to ensure they are genuine, and remain vigilant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although this card is similar to one of our \u2018Something For You\u2019 cards, the Royal Mail logo is crucially missing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Customers should also consider whether they are expecting a delivery from the company named on the card\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Mail and Action Fraud are urgently warning residents of a new scam which involves households receiving \u2018something for you\u2019 cards designed to look like they have come from Royal Mail. The cards urge recipients to call a 0208 number, which is not registered with Royal Mail, where they are put through to an automated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":23188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}