{"id":192,"date":"2006-03-11T11:02:06","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T16:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/03\/fraud_robot\/"},"modified":"2012-10-13T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T01:23:31","slug":"fraud_robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/03\/fraud_robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraud Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today as I was watching a <a href=\"\/ted\/2006\/03\/clarks_nutcracker\/\">Nature<\/a> program I had recorded, I got a phone call. I answered it and was greeted by a robot voice. Before I could hang up, the robot identified itself as being a fraud alert on my Citibank credit card. It said there had been some suspicious activity on my account and asked me to verify two recent transactions. The first was for $10 at Kroger (which, because robots is so dern stupid, it just called &#8220;grocery supermar&#8221;). The second was for a couple of thousand dollars at &#8220;veterinary specialists&#8221; for <a href=\"\/ted\/2006\/03\/katies_other_knee\/\">Katie&#8217;s operation<\/a>. Oooohhhhh . . . I said it was okay, but I&#8217;m glad that got their attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today as I was watching a Nature program I had recorded, I got a phone call. I answered it and was greeted by a robot voice. Before I could hang up, the robot identified itself as being a fraud alert on my Citibank credit card. It said there had been some suspicious activity on my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/03\/fraud_robot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fraud Robot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}