{"id":24720,"date":"2017-11-07T18:11:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T18:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=24720"},"modified":"2017-11-07T18:12:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T18:12:55","slug":"its-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/07\/its-a-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"IT&#8217;S A SCAM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new scam being broadcast via WhatsApp claiming that if you click a link within the message that you will be entiltled to a \u00a3250 voucher, which can be used at a Tesco, Asda or at a M&amp;S store.<\/p>\n<p>However this is a scm and not true. Users of WhatsApp are being told to be vigilant.<\/p>\n<p>Asda has already sent out a statement confirming that these vouchers are bogus.<\/p>\n<p>The fraudsters are sending out fake Marks &amp; Spencer, Tesco and Asda vouchers on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>The WhatsApp message tells users of the service that, to celebrate Asda&#8217;s 68th anniversarry, the retailer is offering everyone a free \u00a3250 voucher.<\/p>\n<p>The message states &#8211; All you need to do is click on a link and fill in your details.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Asda-fake-voucher-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Asda-fake-voucher-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Asda-fake-voucher.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>There are two tell-tale signs the scam is fake: the spelling and grammar mistakes and, if you manually type in the supposed url mentioned in the offer ( http:\/\/www.asda.com\/mycoupon ), this page does not exist on Asda website.<\/p>\n<p>The scammers can possibly plague your phone with a nasty virus when you click the fake link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new scam being broadcast via WhatsApp claiming that if you click a link within the message that you will be entiltled to a \u00a3250 voucher, which can be used at a Tesco, Asda or at a M&amp;S store. However this is a scm and not true. Users of WhatsApp are being told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,75,283,112],"tags":[491,493,490,492],"class_list":["post-24720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-money","category-top-news","category-top-stories","tag-asda","tag-ms","tag-scam","tag-tesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24720","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}