{"id":27,"date":"2009-04-20T13:18:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationery-direct.co.uk\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2021-01-19T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:34:12","slug":"beware-the-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationery-direct.co.uk\/blog\/beware-the-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the scammers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick tip, if anybody claiming to be a Reverend Richard (or similar) gets in touch,\u00a0asking for quotes on leaflets\/flyers\u00a0in quantities of around 90,000+, this is a scam.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a recent enquiry that\u00a0we received today, one of many similar over the past 12 months&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>Dear Sir\/Madam<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am Rev Richard and\u00a0I would\u00a0like to order some flyers, details\u00a0below:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FULL COLOUR ONE SIDE<br \/>\n135GSM GLOSS<br \/>\nPAPER A5 (148X210mm)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please provide a quote on 100,000 copies, can you also get back to me with your method of payment so that we can proceed with this order, thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hope to hear from\u00a0you soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Best Regards<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rev Richard<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t know what the scam is or how it works but if I remember rightly the leaflets\/flyers are to be dispatched to Africa in the end. Save yourself some time working out a quote and delete the e-mail.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> Just received another \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em>Hello<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am Reverend Paul and I would like to know if you can print a flyer 8.5&#8243; x 11&#8243; on a 80 Gloss stock.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What I need on the item is (GIVE A HAND TO THE NEEDY), the background should be in yellow and the writing black.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Let me know the total cost of 60,000 copies and 80,000 copies and also the form of payment you accept.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please advise<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reverend Paul Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick tip, if anybody claiming to be a Reverend Richard (or similar) gets in touch,\u00a0asking for quotes on leaflets\/flyers\u00a0in quantities of around 90,000+, this is a scam. Below is a recent enquiry that\u00a0we received today, one of many similar over the past 12 months&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print-reselling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationery-direct.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationery-direct.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationery-direct.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationery-direct.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationery-direct.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationery-direct.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationery-direct.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationery-direct.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationery-direct.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationery-direct.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}