{"id":10135,"date":"2024-07-17T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=10135"},"modified":"2024-08-11T07:26:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T11:26:35","slug":"fake-missing-children-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2024\/07\/17\/fake-missing-children-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake missing children posts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t get it. A few people shared posts claiming the same photo of a child from different cities was missing. It got me looking into the phenomenon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law enforcement agencies are calling it a bait-and-switch scam<\/a>. After the post gets widely shared, the creator will change it to the real purpose: malicious website, deceptive rental, or some means to separate people from their money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These things also waste police time as there is no contact information. People call their local departments. I have found a few LE agencies asking people to do a bit more looking into these things before reaching out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When to send<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Example good one to share: Maria Gomez-Perez via Classic City News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verified contact info: “Anyone with tips or any information is asked to call 770-503-3232 or email intelrequest@hallcounty.org<\/a>.” One can lookup the phone number and email to make sure they belong to an agency involved in the search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most likely the agencies involved have social media and likely use it to inform the public. Check it’s legitimate there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details about when the child went missing: a date (not hours or days ago). A location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t get it. A few people shared posts claiming the same photo of a child from different cities was missing. It got me looking into the phenomenon. Law enforcement agencies are calling it a bait-and-switch scam. After the post gets widely shared, the creator will change it to the real purpose: malicious website, deceptive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[3047,3725,893],"class_list":["post-10135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-facebook","tag-missing-kids","tag-scam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2Dt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}