{"id":3773,"date":"2021-11-22T07:37:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T06:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/police-and-banks-tell-shoppers-to-be-vigilant-for-black-friday-scams\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T07:37:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T06:37:53","slug":"police-and-banks-tell-shoppers-to-be-vigilant-for-black-friday-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/police-and-banks-tell-shoppers-to-be-vigilant-for-black-friday-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Police and banks tell shoppers to be vigilant for Black Friday scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online crime during Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2020 defrauded UK shoppers by \u00a32.5m<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2021\/nov\/22\/black-friday-deals-barhgains-buy\">Black Friday deals: how to avoid wasting money<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police and banks have warned consumers to be vigilant when shopping in this week\u2019s Black Friday sales, with a rise in scams expected to cost shoppers milions.<\/p>\n<p>Police said crime over the Black Friday and Cyber Monday period last year defrauded online shoppers in Britain of \u00a32.5m.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/22\/banks-police-shoppers-vigilant-black-friday-scams\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3121288aa665e53364f4ed7049a22231e3eb2fae\/0_0_5000_3001\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6dd25887de155699cfab18c3d462a90b\" title=\"Police and banks tell shoppers to be vigilant for Black Friday scams\" \/>Online crime during Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2020 defrauded UK shoppers by \u00a32.5m<br \/>\nBlack Friday deals: how to avoid wasting money<br \/>\nPolice and banks have warned consumers to be vigilant when shopping in this week\u2019s Black Friday sales, with a rise in scams expected to cost shoppers milions.<br \/>\nPolice said crime over the Black Friday and Cyber Monday period last year defrauded online shoppers in Britain of \u00a32.5m. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online crime during Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2020 defrauded UK shoppers by \u00a32.5m Black Friday deals: how to avoid wasting money Police and banks have warned consumers to be vigilant when shopping in this week\u2019s Black Friday sales, with a rise in scams expected to cost shoppers milions. Police said crime over the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/police-and-banks-tell-shoppers-to-be-vigilant-for-black-friday-scams\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police and banks tell shoppers to be vigilant for Black Friday scams<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}