{"id":18629,"date":"2026-01-07T17:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/?p=18629---6387feb6-1bee-45ed-8ab7-f90bdb3e729f"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:20:30","slug":"scam-alert-website-backup-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/news\/scam-alert-website-backup-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Scam Alert: Website Backup Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-18630 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Website Backup Scam\" src=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backup-scam-report-131x168.jpg\" alt=\"Website Backup Scam\" width=\"131\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backup-scam-report-131x168.jpg 131w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backup-scam-report-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backup-scam-report-600x772.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backup-scam-report-145x187.jpg 145w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backup-scam-report.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/>We just want everyone to be aware of the following scam.. <strong>This invoice is a Website Backup Scam!<\/strong> We do not outsource any backups here at MHS. Nor do most other hosting providers.<\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">This invoice is a SCAM!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backup-scam-report.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18630 size-full\" title=\"Website Backup Scam\" src=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backup-scam-report.jpg\" alt=\"Website Backup Scam\" width=\"700\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backup-scam-report.jpg 700w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backup-scam-report-131x168.jpg 131w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backup-scam-report-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backup-scam-report-600x772.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backup-scam-report-145x187.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just want everyone to be aware of the following scam.. This invoice is a Website Backup Scam! We do not outsource any backups here at MHS. Nor do most other hosting providers. This invoice is a SCAM!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scam-alerts","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64823,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629\/revisions\/64823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}