{"id":685290,"date":"2010-03-08T11:13:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002963"},"modified":"2010-03-08T11:17:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:17:05","slug":"its-national-consumer-protection-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/685290","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s National Consumer Protection Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/030810-money-cat-thumb-300x175-37867.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>The FTC has designated this week <a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.gov\/ncpw\/outreach\/\">National Consumer Protection Week<\/a>, so all scams will be put on hold and businesses won&#8217;t overcharge you until next Sunday. What, no? That&#8217;s now how it works? Ah&#8230; it looks like it&#8217;s more about consumer <em>education<\/em>, which is also a good thing since that will help consumers protect themselves year round. For adults, here&#8217;s a whole page of various <a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.gov\/ncpw\/everyone\/scam-watch\/\">scam prevention tips, fact sheets, and videos<\/a>. If you&#8217;re an educator, you can enroll in the <a href=\"http:\/\/challenge.treas.gov\/\">National Financial Capability Challenge<\/a> and get an &#8220;educator toolkit&#8221; to help you teach students how to be smart consumers. There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.gov\/ncpw\/businesses\/\">section for businesses<\/a> too, with information on how to protect customers&#8217; personal info and deter ID theft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.gov\/ncpw\/about\/\">&#8220;National Consumer Protection Week 2010&#8221;<\/a> [Consumer.gov]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FTC has designated this week National Consumer Protection Week, so all scams will be put on hold and businesses won&#8217;t overcharge you until next Sunday. What, no? That&#8217;s now how it works? Ah&#8230; it looks like it&#8217;s more about consumer education, which is also a good thing since that will help consumers protect themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Sh4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}