{"id":19202,"date":"2026-01-15T10:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=19202"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:04:04","slug":"scam-phishing-text-message-posing-as-ofsted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/scam-phishing-text-message-posing-as-ofsted\/","title":{"rendered":"SCAM \u2018phishing\u2019 text message posing as Ofsted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have received reports from local providers that they have received a suspicious looking \u2018phishing\u2019 text message posing as Ofsted, with an urgent alert telling them that their Ofsted Registration has been \u2018suspended\u2019 and asking the recipient to click on a link.<\/p>\n<p>This is in fact a SCAM, please do not click on the link and delete the message from your phone.<\/p>\n<p>The Stop! Think Fraud Campaign has useful advice on how to spot a fake text message and how you can report it: <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthinkfraud.campaign.gov.uk\/how-to-spot-fraud\/how-to-spot-a-fake-text-message\/\" rel=\"noopener\">How to spot a fake text message &#8211; Stop! Think Fraud<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have received reports from local providers that they have received a suspicious looking \u2018phishing\u2019 text message posing as Ofsted, with an urgent alert telling them that their Ofsted Registration has been \u2018suspended\u2019 and asking the recipient to click on a link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 11:50:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19203,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19202\/revisions\/19203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}