{"id":3116,"date":"2008-05-21T10:31:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T10:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/good_ol_fashioned_spam\/"},"modified":"2021-05-27T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T09:38:12","slug":"good_ol_fashioned_spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/good-ol-fashioned-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Ol&#8217; Fashioned Spam &#8211; National Consumers League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- content_before_flip_start -->The Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that it&#8217;s cracking down on deceptive telemarketing operations. Through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2008\/05\/telephoney.shtm\">Operation Tele-PHONEY<\/a>, the FTC has filed federal district court complaints against 13 alleged bad guys. NCL was recently featured in a story on National Public Radio&#8217;s Marketplace about traditional, snail mail spam &#8212; something that many of us have come to forgotten with the focus, in recent years, on avoiding <em>email<\/em> spam and fraud. Read the story or listen to it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2008\/05\/12\/its-not-just-your-e-mail-gets-scams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<!-- content_before_flip_end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that it&#8217;s cracking down on deceptive telemarketing operations. Through Operation Tele-PHONEY, the FTC has filed federal district court complaints against 13 alleged bad guys. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19670,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/19670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}