{"id":16255,"date":"2020-06-25T16:13:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T15:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=16255"},"modified":"2020-06-25T16:13:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T15:13:43","slug":"are-you-available-email-scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/are-you-available-email-scam-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you Available? Email scam alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look out for a scam email described below, it\u2019s <strong>very convincing and is a live threat<\/strong>. It appears to come from a colleague in your school\/department.<\/p>\n<p>It may have a subject line similar to:<\/p>\n<p>* Are you on Campus?<\/p>\n<p>* Are you Available?<\/p>\n<p>* Free \/ Are you free?<\/p>\n<p>The scammers mimic who the email is sent from, so it looks like someone your work with. If you reply, they <strong>pretend to be your colleague and start an email exchange with you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Their reply is likely to say something along these lines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>they say they are in a meeting, or at a conference etc (so you can\u2019t ring them to check validity)<\/li>\n<li>they make their request for your help sound urgent<\/li>\n<li>eventually they ask you to buy iTunes or Amazon vouchers for them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you get one of these, please delete it.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever have the slightest doubt about the legitimacy of an email, contact us to check it out for you.<\/p>\n<p>If you have responded and bought vouchers, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/reporting-fraud-and-cyber-crime\">report it as a crime to Action Fraud<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/guides\/email-safety\">More advice from us about email safety and spotting fakes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look out for a scam email described below, it\u2019s very convincing and is a live threat. It appears to come from a colleague in your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/are-you-available-email-scam-alert\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":8766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10268,142785],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16262,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255\/revisions\/16262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}