{"id":32713,"date":"2006-01-09T09:57:29","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T09:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/01\/09\/beware-the-msj-subscription-scam\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T09:57:29","slug":"beware-the-msj-subscription-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060109-29\/?p=32713","title":{"rendered":"Beware the MSJ subscription scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/toub\/\">Stephen Toub<\/a> from MSDN Magazine alerts us to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/toub\/archive\/2006\/01\/06\/510099.aspx\"> the MSJ subscription scam<\/a>. Somebody has been sending out (via paper mail) a fake subscription offer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/msj\/\"> Microsoft Systems Journal<\/a>, a magazine that ceased publication back in 2000. Read Stephen&#8217;s article for more details as well as a copy of the scam letter itself. (The address for the &#8220;publisher&#8221; is a rented mailbox at a what appears to be a UPS Store in the Beaumont Centre mall.) Under no circumstances send these people any money!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Toub from MSDN Magazine alerts us to the MSJ subscription scam. Somebody has been sending out (via paper mail) a fake subscription offer for Microsoft Systems Journal, a magazine that ceased publication back in 2000. Read Stephen&#8217;s article for more details as well as a copy of the scam letter itself. (The address for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-32713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Stephen Toub from MSDN Magazine alerts us to the MSJ subscription scam. Somebody has been sending out (via paper mail) a fake subscription offer for Microsoft Systems Journal, a magazine that ceased publication back in 2000. Read Stephen&#8217;s article for more details as well as a copy of the scam letter itself. (The address for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}