{"id":1770,"date":"2015-04-24T10:08:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T10:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2015-04-24T10:08:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T10:08:24","slug":"warning-telephone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/warning-telephone-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning \u2013 telephone scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1771\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/warning-telephone-scam\/warning\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2015\/04\/warning.png\" data-orig-size=\"640,565\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"warning\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2015\/04\/warning.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1771 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2015\/04\/warning-300x264.png\" alt=\"warning\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2015\/04\/warning-300x264.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2015\/04\/warning.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>We have received news that there is a scam targeting international students.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This scam follows a similar pattern to previous scams:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">A student receives a call from someone pretending to be from the Home Office<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">The incoming number appears to match a genuine Home Office number<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">The student is told that there is a problem with their visa and that they need to pay a fine and\/or give the caller personal information and contact details<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Some students are also told that they will be visited by a Home Office official<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Please remember that the Home Office will never call an international student to request payments or ask for personal details in this way. \u00a0<strong>DO NOT make payments or give information to anyone calling you like this.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have received news that there is a scam targeting international students. This scam follows a similar pattern to previous scams: A student receives a call from someone pretending to be from the Home Office The incoming number appears to match a genuine Home Office number The student is told that there is a problem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/warning-telephone-scam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warning \u2013 telephone scam<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support","tag-monday-27-april-2015"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RiUv-sy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}