{"id":3630,"date":"2020-12-09T05:52:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T11:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2020-12-08T09:59:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:59:17","slug":"cook-co-warns-clients-about-a-covid-related-text-message-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/cook-co-warns-clients-about-a-covid-related-text-message-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook &#038; Co. warns Clients about a COVID-Related Text Message Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Be aware of a new text message scam. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The thief\u2019s goal is to trick people into revealing bank account information under the guise of receiving the $1,200 Economic Impact Payment.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Says Greg Cook<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Here\u2019s How This Scam Works<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People get a text message saying they have \u201creceived a direct deposit of $1,200 from COVID-19 TREAS FUND. Further action is required to accept this payment\u2026 Continue here to accept this payment \u2026&#8221; The text includes a link to a phishing web address. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This fake link appears to come from a state agency or relief organization. It takes people to a fake website that looks like the IRS.gov <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMjksInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDEyMDguMzE3Mzg5MTEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5pcnMuZ292L2Nvcm9uYXZpcnVzL2dldC1teS1wYXltZW50In0.m3yb2GD9W9Q2oKf3K45aAuk7q6rGpXjodMj7G5E15tw\/s\/7110380\/br\/91294889431-l\" target=\"_blank\">Get My Payment website<\/a>. If people visit the fake website and enter their personal and financial account information, the scammers collect it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be aware of a new text message scam. &#8220;The thief\u2019s goal is to trick people into revealing bank account information under the guise of receiving the $1,200 Economic Impact Payment.&#8221; Says Greg Cook Here\u2019s How This Scam Works People get a text message saying they have \u201creceived a direct deposit of $1,200 from COVID-19 TREAS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-12-09T12:09:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"a2821bce-c3c9-4f05-921a-8210924ba68e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-12-09T12:09:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AooIbzsPJTwWSGoIQkkumjg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}