{"id":14229,"date":"2004-04-12T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/12\/urban-legends-scam-report\/"},"modified":"2004-04-12T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-12T13:18:00","slug":"urban-legends-scam-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/12\/urban-legends-scam-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Legends Scam Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I get a chain e-mail or hear about something that sounds too good to be true, I check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">snopes.com<\/a>, a comprehensive resource that evaluates these claims and confirms whether or not they have any basis in fact.  Snopes has been around for a long time, but they&rsquo;ve introduced a feature that might be worth bookmarking: a &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/inboxer\/scams\/daily\/2004\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Scam Report<\/a>&rdquo; that &ldquo;features a daily collection of links to articles about Internet scams (as well as some links to prominent scams of the non-cyber variety).&rdquo;  This is kind of nice, because sometimes it takes Snopes a little while to properly investigate new things; this page seems to allow them to put out some preliminary warnings, although they point out that they &ldquo;make no claims about the reliability of information linked from this page.&rdquo;  For the full scoop on the latest urban legends and scams with Snopes&rsquo; evaluations, check out the &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/info\/whatsnew.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Recent Additions<\/a>&rdquo; page.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108177593569048203?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I get a chain e-mail or hear about something that sounds too good to be true, I check out snopes.com, a comprehensive resource that evaluates these claims and confirms whether or not they have any basis in fact. Snopes has been around for a long time, but they&rsquo;ve introduced a feature that might be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/12\/urban-legends-scam-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Urban Legends Scam Report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}