{"id":1783,"date":"2016-01-01T03:33:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T03:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotearc.net\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2016-01-01T03:33:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T03:33:11","slug":"scammer-alert-not-the-real-k5ww","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/2016\/01\/01\/scammer-alert-not-the-real-k5ww\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammer alert: NOT the real K5WW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in a week or so I was contacted by fellow operators trying to verify my email address and phone number; because they were lead to believe that I &#8211; K5WW &#8211; am selling some equipment that they are looking for and are willing to pay good money for it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>I am not selling anything.<\/b><\/span> (at least not at this time)<\/p>\n<p>The scammer is signing his\/her emails with my name as listed on QRZ.com, though without the period after my abbreviated first name. The email address used is <a href=\"mailto:erikk5ww@outlook.com\">erikk5ww@outlook.com<\/a>. He\/she also keeps making the mistake of putting &#8220;best regards&#8217;s&#8221; (in numerical form) at the end of the email. Not every crook has a brain <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chat.qth.com\/images\/smilies\/icon_lol.gif?w=640\" alt=\"[\u200bIMG]\" data-url=\"http:\/\/chat.qth.com\/images\/smilies\/icon_lol.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Be on the lookout. If anyone wants to verify my identity: my email address is on QRZ.com. And if it&#8217;s ever necessary I will happily provide my phone number.<\/p>\n<p>Happy, and <b>safe <\/b>trading. And Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>73,<\/p>\n<p>Erik &#8211; K5WW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in a week or so I was contacted by fellow operators trying to verify my email address and phone number; because they were lead to believe that I &#8211; K5WW &#8211; am selling some equipment that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/2016\/01\/01\/scammer-alert-not-the-real-k5ww\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}