{"id":2227,"date":"2021-11-23T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:14:00","slug":"fun-distraction-phone-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/2021\/11\/23\/fun-distraction-phone-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Distraction: Phone Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2229\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_PhoneScams.jpg\" alt=\"Image advertising the Library\u2019s FUN Distractions series post about Mark Rober foiling phone scammers\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_PhoneScams.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_PhoneScams-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_PhoneScams-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_PhoneScams-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_PhoneScams-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/FD_PhoneScams-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Mark Rober is at it again, this time foiling phone scammers with his famous glitter bombs. Mark with some help from other social media personalities like \u201cScammer Payback\u201d manage to figure out how these scams work and catch the bad guys in action with glitter bombs and the police. Mark and his friends are able to intercept over $30K already in the mail to scammers. He points out the elderly, non tech savvy, members of our families are particularly vulnerable to these scammers. Over the holidays take a moment to explain how these scams work to your elderly family members so they do not get caught up in a scam.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VrKW58MS12g\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/VrKW58MS12g<\/a><br \/><br \/>#memoriallibraryfundistractionsseries<br \/>#sunycortlandmemoriallibrary<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Rober is at it again, this time foiling phone scammers with his famous glitter bombs. Mark with some help from other social media personalities like \u201cScammer Payback\u201d manage to figure out how these scams work and catch the bad guys in action with glitter bombs and the police. Mark and his friends are able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-distractions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}