{"id":9446,"date":"2017-01-28T17:13:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2017-01-28T17:13:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T17:13:13","slug":"can-you-hear-me-scam-warning-is-probably-fake-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/01\/28\/can-you-hear-me-scam-warning-is-probably-fake-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Can You Hear Me?&#8217; Scam Warning is probably fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dozens of news outlets reported on a purported scam wherein fraudsters supposedly falsify charges by randomly calling people and asking &#8216;Can you hear me?&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/can-you-hear-me-scam\/\">&#8216;Can You Hear Me?&#8217; Scam Warning<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>CBS News prompted the latest round of this story. As Snopes notes, no one can identify an actual victim of the purported scam. Of course, it is a good idea to say as little as possible to telemarketers. However, it might not be a great idea to share the story on social media.<\/p>\n<p>(CBS News is famous for &#8220;fake but accurate&#8221; reporting &#8211; the term the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/15\/us\/the-2004-campaign-national-guard-memos-on-bush-are-fake-but-accurate.html\">NY Times<\/a> used to describe a CBS News report that caused interference in the 2004 US Presidential election, not by Russia, but by CBS. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killian_documents_controversy\">After an investigation, CBS fired<\/a> CBS News producer Mary Mapes, CBS News anchor Dan Rather, 60 Minutes executive producer Josh Howard, Senior Producer Mary Murphy, and CBS Senior VP Betsy West. &#8220;Fake&#8221; news has been around a very long time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of news outlets reported on a purported scam wherein fraudsters supposedly falsify charges by randomly calling people and asking &#8216;Can you hear me?&#8217; Source: &#8216;Can You Hear Me?&#8217; Scam Warning CBS News prompted the latest round of this story. As Snopes notes, no one can identify an actual victim of the purported scam. Of course, it is a good idea to say as little as possible to telemarketers. However, it might not be a great idea to share the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/01\/28\/can-you-hear-me-scam-warning-is-probably-fake-news-2\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-news","category-social-media","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}