{"id":893,"date":"2013-06-19T13:34:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T18:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bly.com\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2013-06-19T13:34:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T18:34:05","slug":"a-serius-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/general\/a-serius-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"A Serius Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SiriusXM Satellite Radio is now a direct mail scammer.<\/p>\n<p>I just received a mailing from them with &#8220;Statement Enclosed&#8221; printed on the outer envelope &#8212; even though I am not a subscriber.<\/p>\n<p>I immediately opened it, fearing that I somehow owed them money.<\/p>\n<p>What was inside was not a statement. It was a direct mail promotion inviting me to subscribe to their satellite radio.<\/p>\n<p>This is total deception, pure and simple.<\/p>\n<p>It was a common practice years ago, what with envelopes containing faux checks or designed like notices from the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>The practice is rare and frowned upon today.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on you, radio guys. Seriusly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SiriusXM Satellite Radio is now a direct mail scammer. I just received a mailing from them with &#8220;Statement Enclosed&#8221; printed on the outer envelope &#8212; even though I am not a subscriber. I immediately opened it, fearing that I somehow owed them money. What was inside was not a statement. It was a direct mail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}