{"id":8797,"date":"2021-07-20T10:34:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8797"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:33:23","slug":"scammers-attempt-to-cash-in-on-child-tax-credit-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/scammers-attempt-to-cash-in-on-child-tax-credit-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammers Attempt To Cash In On Child Tax Credit Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cybercriminals are trying to capitalize on the latest round of IRS child tax credit payments by creating a network of related websites aimed at getting people to enter their personal information while pretending to be associated with the child tax credits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the DomainTools report, this scam is aimed at those who are not aware that payments are made automatically and do not require any personal data on websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fake pages resemble government websites that detail the payment and ask users to &#8220;apply now.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A page called &#8220;reliefcarefunds [.] com.&#8221; even went so far as to ask for names, addresses, social security numbers, photos of driving licenses and even the mother&#8217;s maiden name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the site was linked to &#8220;americaforgivenrelieffund [.] com,&#8221; DomainTools, after a careful investigation was able to trace the two sites and 39 other domains to an email address: goldenwaves247 @ gmail [.] com, registered in Ibadan, Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/cybersecurity-company-warns-of-american-rescue-plan-act-scams-as-first-irs-child-tax-credit-payments-released\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybercriminals are trying to capitalize on the latest round of IRS child tax credit payments by creating a network of related websites aimed at getting people to enter their personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8837,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions\/8837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}