{"id":688,"date":"2021-05-06T17:52:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T15:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2021\/05\/pubblicita-fraudolenta-su-cittadinanza-2\/"},"modified":"2021-05-06T17:52:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T15:52:05","slug":"pubblicita-fraudolenta-su-cittadinanza-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2021\/05\/pubblicita-fraudolenta-su-cittadinanza-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SCAM ALERT \u2013 Italian citizenship and residence permit for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have noticed on websites and social media, also in South Africa, <strong>adverts and banners offering \u2013 in exchange for large sums of money \u2013 Italian citizenship (and passport) or residence permit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> IT\u2019S A SCAM!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please note that <strong>only the Embassy and the Consulates are authorised<\/strong> to take citizenship applications (either recognition of citizenship by blood or naturalisation); in South Africa visa applications can be presented through the official outsourcer VFS Global.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The only fee to be paid is the official one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We kindly ask you to report us any suspicious scam attempt or communication writing to: consolato.pretoria@esteri.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have noticed on websites and social media, also in South Africa, adverts and banners offering \u2013 in exchange for large sums of money \u2013 Italian citizenship (and passport) or residence permit. \u00a0 IT\u2019S A SCAM! \u00a0 Please note that only the Embassy and the Consulates are authorised to take citizenship applications (either recognition of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}