{"id":8664,"date":"2021-04-22T17:01:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2021-04-22T17:01:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:01:36","slug":"beware-of-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/?p=8664","title":{"rendered":"Beware of scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Beware of scams<\/h1>\n<p>Unfortunately, some criminals try to get money from students, particularly our international students. Some of these scams will be very authentic and persuasive and it can be frightening. Please don\u2019t give out any personal details, especially banking details.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8665 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Orange-tick-box.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"89\" height=\"83\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Examples of recent scams that have targeted our students include:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>An international student received a hoax phone call from someone claiming to be from the Home Office and was asked to share personal details.<\/li>\n<li>A student gave away their email login details through responding to a phishing email. A few months later, their email account had been hijacked and the hijacker impersonated the University to request the student pay tuition fee deposits.<\/li>\n<li>Committee members of a student society have been targeted with threatening Whatsapp messages.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re contacted by someone and it seems unusual, unexpected or just odd, please end the call\/communication. You should then contact\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exeter.ac.uk\/students\/infopoints\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">your Info Point<\/a>\u00a0who can offer you advice on what to do next. If the person who contacted you\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>genuine they won\u2019t mind you checking this and then getting back to them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeter.ac.uk\/ig\/informationsecurity\/securitytips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out more about keeping safe online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also have some specific guidance on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeter.ac.uk\/staff\/employment\/hrpoliciesatoz\/socialmedia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protecting yourself on social media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeter.ac.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more University News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware of scams Unfortunately, some criminals try to get money from students, particularly our international students. Some of these scams will be very authentic and persuasive and it can be frightening. Please don\u2019t give out any personal details, especially banking details. Examples of recent scams that have targeted our students include: &nbsp; An international student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8666,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions\/8666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuff2move.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}