{"id":50781,"date":"2014-11-26T16:09:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T16:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ebaacc49b86a6b9c42cb97485ac88ed6"},"modified":"2014-11-26T16:09:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T16:09:18","slug":"press-release-rpa-urges-farmers-to-be-vigilant-against-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50781","title":{"rendered":"Press release: RPA urges farmers to be vigilant against fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>In each of the last two years the Rural Payments Agency (<abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr>) has been made aware by banks that fraudsters &#8211; pretending to be from their bank\u2019s fraud department &#8211; may try to target farmers who receive Single Payment Scheme (<abbr title=\"Single Payment Scheme\">SPS<\/abbr>) payments. <\/p>\n<p>We believe the same fraudulent activity could also take place this year, so we urge farming businesses to remain vigilant &#8211; particularly as we approach the opening of the <abbr title=\"Single Payment Scheme\">SPS<\/abbr> 2014 payment window in December.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to remind farmers there are a number of simple steps that can be taken to reduce the chances of becoming a victim of deception: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remember that your bank will never request your full online password information.<\/li>\n<li>Your bank will not ask you to make a payment over the phone by using your online account. <\/li>\n<li>Be aware that if your bank does request you to call back, you need to ensure that you can hear a dial tone first or use a mobile to phone the bank directly (as the phone line may be held open by the fraudster).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural Payments Agency says farmers need to be aware of potential fraud as the 2014 SPS payment window nears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}