{"id":31047,"date":"2012-01-19T16:22:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31047"},"modified":"2012-01-19T16:24:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T14:24:46","slug":"psa-watch-out-for-halo-4-beta-signups-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31047-psa-watch-out-for-halo-4-beta-signups-scam","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Watch out for Halo 4 beta signups scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, you look like a person with a high k\/d and serious skills and that&#8217;s totally hot. Wanna sign up for the Halo 4 beta? Just click here, and make sure to have your <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19908-Xbox-LIVE-(XBL)\">Xbox LIVE<\/a> login credentials and credit card details ready (for admin purposes only).<\/p>\n<p>If you fell for that, consider yourself lucky &#8211; it&#8217;s not a real scam, just a really convincing version of one that I made up, and it&#8217;s also valuable practice for the actual real scam that&#8217;s going around right now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you see a page claiming to allow you to sign up for a Halo 4 beta be advised, IT&#8217;S A FAKE,&#8221; posted 343 Industries&#8217; Dave Ellis on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7qKcJF4fOPs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11861-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> has not, of course, announced anything about a Halo 4 beta yet, which is also quite a big clue. The game&#8217;s scheduled to launch later this year, so there probably will be a beta at some point, though, but let&#8217;s deal with that when it happens.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DavidEllis\/statuses\/159345910747369472\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something&#8217;s phishy around here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":25705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[31,255,2063,2064,1423],"class_list":["post-31047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-halo-4","tag-phishin","tag-psa","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31071,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31047\/revisions\/31071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}