{"id":12375,"date":"2024-07-24T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=12375"},"modified":"2024-07-24T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:22:22","slug":"brickbat-caught-a-big-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=12375","title":{"rendered":"Brickbat: Caught a Big One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/c800x450-w800-q60\/uploads\/2024\/07\/dreamstime_xxl_241714511-800x450.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" alt=\"A credit card with a fishhook through it and fishing line, signifying a phishing attempt. | Nevodka | Dreamstime.com\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The town of Memphis, Tennessee, misplaced $773,000 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/investigations\/city-of-memphis-lost-773k-in-phishing-scam\/\">phishing scam<\/a> in 2022, however officers didn&#8217;t disclose the loss till an area media outlet requested about it not too long ago. The town was making common funds to an area building firm. &#8220;Following a request from who they believed to be Zellner Building, they modified the account particulars and wired $773k to an account that was, certainly, not Zellner,&#8221; metropolis media affairs supervisor Arlenia Cole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/news\/local\/2024\/07\/17\/memphis-city-taxdollars-lost-phishing-scam\/74440516007\/\">said<\/a> in a press release. Officers stated that by the point they found the error the time interval to reclaim the cash had expired.<\/p>\n<p>The submit <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/07\/24\/brickbat-caught-a-big-one\/\">Brickbat: Caught a Big One<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\">Reason.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/07\/24\/brickbat-caught-a-big-one\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Memphis, Tennessee, misplaced $773,000 in a phishing scam in 2022, however officers didn&#8217;t disclose the loss till an area media outlet requested about it not too long ago. The town was making common funds to an area building firm. &#8220;Following a request from who they believed to be Zellner Building, they modified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,6062,1089],"class_list":["post-12375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-big","tag-brickbat","tag-caught"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}