{"id":14319,"date":"2024-07-12T12:04:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=14319"},"modified":"2024-07-12T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:07:58","slug":"scamming-the-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=14319","title":{"rendered":"Scamming the scammer"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Behind its paywall, the Daily Telegraph carries a story about a scam to con the already gullible, Reform UK Party Ltd &#8216;members&#8217;. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/reform-uk-warns-members-over-nigel-farage-online-scam\/ar-BB1pPglf\">non-paywalled version of the article can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/07\/farage_com-e1720785322596.png\" alt=\"Headline Reform UK warns members over Nigel Farage online scam\" width=\"600\" height=\"651\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14327\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>The pretend political party (<em>it&#8217;s actually a <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/11694875\">limited company in which dodgy former MEP Nigel Farage is the majority shareholder<\/a>. Ed.<\/em>) issued an emergency email on Thursday evening after a fraudulent Telegram account bearing Mr Farage\u2019s name told members to donate \u00a3200 to it to become a \u201cVIP member\u201d of the party.<\/p>\r\n\r\nA spokesperson for the <del>party<\/del> company has said the following:\r\n\r\n<blockquote>At present we are only aware that this scammer is working on Telegram, however we are acutely aware that they could be operating on various other social media and messaging platforms.<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>And.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>This is a criminal fraudulent endeavour and we are getting in touch with Telegram and the police to have it shut down.<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>Your &#8216;umble scribe would add that anyone foolish enough to have handed money to a charlatan like Farage has already been scammed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind its paywall, the Daily Telegraph carries a story about a scam to con the already gullible, Reform UK Party Ltd &#8216;members&#8217;. A non-paywalled version of the article can be read here. The pretend political party (it&#8217;s actually a limited company in which dodgy former MEP Nigel Farage is the majority shareholder. Ed.) issued an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15,9],"tags":[36,33,20,23],"class_list":["post-14319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-tech","tag-comment","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14319"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14335,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319\/revisions\/14335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}