{"id":4965,"date":"2016-09-29T18:36:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T22:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.us.wordcamp.org\/?p=4965"},"modified":"2016-09-29T18:36:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T22:36:48","slug":"wordcamp-us-room-block-scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wordcamp-us-room-block-scam-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"WordCamp US Room Block Scam Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">This afternoon someone from \u201cConventions Housing Bureau\u201d at 866-786-4001 claiming to be a WordCamp US organizer reached out to our sponsor Bluehost\u2019s sales\/support line offering hotel room rates, using what they misrepresented to be the WordCamp US block rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The scammers used publicly available information to reach out to Bluehost. \u00a0Our attendee and sponsors contact information remains private and we have NOT had a site breach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Please be aware that no one from WordCamp US will try to contact you about booking or blocks. If you want more information about booking a room in our hotel block you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/08\/31\/book-your-room-for-wcus\/\">details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If you should experience anything like this, please let us know. Please don&#8217;t hesitate to ask us if you have any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon someone from \u201cConventions Housing Bureau\u201d at 866-786-4001 claiming to be a WordCamp US organizer reached out to our sponsor Bluehost\u2019s sales\/support line offering hotel room rates, using what they misrepresented to be the WordCamp US block rate. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wordcamp-us-room-block-scam-alert\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">WordCamp US Room Block Scam Alert<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1162914,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1162914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4969,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}