{"id":130,"date":"2014-09-11T13:03:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2014-09-11T13:03:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T13:03:34","slug":"new-form-of-scam-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/new-form-of-scam-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"New Form of Scam \/ Spam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found in my junk mail folder today. Now the name and domain details are correct, it was only registered yesterday but using scare tactics <em>to avoid late fees<\/em> is just pure drivel. There are no late fees and those search engines do not ask for fees. It is a scam. the link that says searchregistry.org actually goes to genusk . com. <\/p>\n<p>I searched on the web and found this site that reckons it&#8217;s a scam:   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scamadviser.com\/check-website\/genusk.com\" title=\"Scam check\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.scamadviser.com\/check-website\/genusk.com<\/a>. Now apparently 6,648 recommend it on Google+, which for a site that was only created on August 28th 2014 make&#8217;s it highly unbelievable!<\/p>\n<p>Just avoid!<\/p>\n<pre>Hi there David Bolton, \n\nDomain Name: electricemporium.com  (Account #64232) This email is being sent out to you because search registration for electricemporium.com is pending.\nPlease register these domains to search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo ASAP <em>to avoid late fees<\/em>.\n\nRegistering for search engines would help you show up in search results and increase your online presence.\n\nYou can register your domain at: here ( actually goes to genusk . com ) \n\nWe sincerely appreciate your business! If you require anything, we are at your service.\n\nRemember\u2026 If you do not register your domain with the search engines, it may not appear in the search engine listing when people are looking for you. Failure to complete your domain name search engine registration by the expiration date may make it difficult for your customers to locate you on the web. Complete your search engine registration today at: www.searchregistry.org (actually goes to genusk . com )\nSincerely, \n\nSearch Engine Registry\n1787 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 1025\nWashington DC, 20006<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found in my junk mail folder today. Now the name and domain details are correct, it was only registered yesterday but using scare tactics to avoid late fees is just pure drivel. There are no late fees and those search engines do not ask for fees. It is a scam. the link that says searchregistry.org [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}