{"id":229,"date":"2009-10-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/merchandise-claim-notification-scam\/"},"modified":"2014-08-02T09:17:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T13:17:47","slug":"merchandise-claim-notification-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/merchandise-claim-notification-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Merchandise Claim Notification Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WE have received several emails like the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have just received  a merchandise claim notification from IAC Awards Center Director, Las Vegas, NV for a vehicle entitlement requiring a redempton fee of $47.97. I would like to know if this is a legitimate merchandise incentive offer, or a scam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Web Marketing Association is based in Connecticut and does not have anything to do with this or any &#8220;merchandise claim notification&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for vehicle entitlement requiring a redemption fee of $47.97 &#8211; two things come to mind. First you get what you pay for and I don&#8217;t know what vehicle you can expect for $47.97. Second, if it sounds to good to be true&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WE have received several emails like the following: I have just received a merchandise claim notification from IAC Awards Center Director, Las Vegas, NV for a vehicle entitlement requiring a redempton fee of $47.97. I would like to know if this is a legitimate merchandise incentive offer, or a scam. The Web Marketing Association is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-marketing-association"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}