{"id":18,"date":"2015-07-16T13:54:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/?p=18"},"modified":"2016-06-01T12:59:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T11:59:57","slug":"giant-water-slide-facebook-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/giant-water-slide-facebook-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Water Slide Facebook Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ever use Facebook?<\/h2>\n<p>Our partners Sophos have done an excellent article on effectively potential Facebook scams. Titled &#8216;Don&#8217;t bother signing up for the giant water slide Facebook events&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SlidnFly.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SlidnFly.png\" alt=\"SlidnFly\" width=\"640\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article goes onto to say,<\/p>\n<p>Somebody&#8217;s promising &#8220;the most exhilarating water event to ever hit&#8221; the UK city of Hull.<\/p>\n<p>But rather than a free ride on a steep water slide with a pool to splash into at the end, as the Facebook page photo enticingly shows, the event smells awfully fishy.<\/p>\n<p>One commenter dove right into the bogosity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can this be happening in Hull? There are no public open air pools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Facebook is reportedly hosting 50 event pages in UK cities, all offering the chance to ride a giant outdoor slide on 29 August &#8211; one of the country&#8217;s bank holiday weekends &#8211; and promising that the event has free admission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/slide-n-flyPosts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/slide-n-flyPosts.jpg\" alt=\"slide-n-flyPosts\" width=\"300\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>That&#8217;s right, all you have to do is show up and &#8220;be ready for the ride of your life!&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>One more thing: make sure to &#8220;JOIN, SHARE the Event &amp; INVITE your friends!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, no details on where or when the fun will happen are forthcoming.<br \/>\nThousands of people have signed up, but the Express reports that local councils haven&#8217;t received any applications to stage a water slide event and have warned it could be a scam to gather personal data.<\/p>\n<p>Express.co.uk quoted a spokesperson from Bristol City Council:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have not received any applications relating to this event and it does not have permission to go ahead on any Bristol City Council land.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For further reading on this article please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2015\/08\/17\/dont-bother-signing-up-for-the-giant-water-slide-facebook-events\/\">Naked Security&#8217;s original article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever use Facebook? Our partners Sophos have done an excellent article on effectively potential Facebook scams. Titled &#8216;Don&#8217;t bother signing up for the giant water slide Facebook events&#8217;. The article goes onto to say, Somebody&#8217;s promising &#8220;the most exhilarating water event to ever hit&#8221; the UK city of Hull. But rather than a free ride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cse-ltd.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}