{"id":13371,"date":"2025-06-26T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/google-sms-review-blackmail-scams\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:46:07","slug":"google-sms-review-blackmail-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/google-sms-review-blackmail-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Google SMS Review &amp; Blackmail Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, we covered a report by the NY Times on the ongoing issues with review scams and blackmail.  Well, the issue is not gone, despite Google responding to that report.  From what I am told, it is still relatively common and our own Bill Hartzer was recently threatened and blackmailed with this over SMS.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, we covered a report by the NY Times on the ongoing issues with review scams and blackmail. Well, the issue is not gone, despite Google responding to that report. From what I am told, it is still relatively common and our own Bill Hartzer was recently threatened and blackmailed with this over SMS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-roundtable"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/craig\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}