{"id":12176,"date":"2025-07-31T10:51:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/?page_id=12176"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:22:50","slug":"warning-sign-of-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/current-students\/scams\/warning-sign-of-a-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning Signs of a Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The person on the phone doesn\u2019t say who they are, or if they do, it\u2019s a fake organization\/department.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sometimes the phone number is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/spoofing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spoofed<\/a>\u201d, meaning that it looks like the call is coming from an official agency,&nbsp;such as the IRS, Immigration &amp; Customs Enforcement (ICE) or the police, but it is not.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They say false information such as, \u201cThere is a problem with your taxes\/ immigration status.\u201d They don\u2019t provide specifics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They may call you in your preferred language.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They will try to rush you and want you to act quickly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They usually demand money or gift cards \u2013 often hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They might want you to meet with them at a certain place.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They may threaten you with deportation, blackmail, violence, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They might tell you to stay on the line and not hang up.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They may tell you that you must keep the conversation\/exchange secret and try to schedule another call at a later date.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The caller may know your school, phone number, and address.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They might want to send you money and then demand you purchase things for them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Phishing Emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The sender email address looks strange.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spelling or grammar errors in the message<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Included links go to odd websites.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The email asks you to purchase gift cards or money orders.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The email asks you to provide credit card information.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The email asks you for login information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Duo Login:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You receive a\u202fDuo\u202f&#8221;push&#8221; login request when you aren\u2019t expecting one \u2014 especially when you&#8217;re not actively logging in to an application or system.&nbsp;<strong>DO NOT APPROVE IT!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phishing Emails: Duo Login:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":924,"featured_media":0,"parent":12156,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-12176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12251,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12176\/revisions\/12251"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}