{"id":142,"date":"2017-08-02T09:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T08:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/?p=142"},"modified":"2017-08-02T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T08:41:11","slug":"safety-first-be-aware-of-frauds-and-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/2017\/08\/02\/safety-first-be-aware-of-frauds-and-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety First &#8211; be aware of frauds and scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some criminals specifically target international students, telephoning them and pretending to be from a legitimate organisation (such as the UK Home Office, an education agent or even UKCISA). They demand money (calling it a &#8220;fine&#8221; for a non-existent immigration problem), and claim that if you do not pay them quickly, there will be damaging consequences (for example, deportation or cancelling your visa).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukcisa.org.uk\/Information--Advice\/Studying--living-in-the-UK\/Frauds-and-scams#layer-4086\">UKCISA guidance here <\/a>on identifying scams and how to respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some criminals specifically target international students, telephoning them and pretending to be from a legitimate organisation (such as the UK Home Office, an education agent or even UKCISA). They demand money (calling it a &#8220;fine&#8221; for a non-existent immigration problem), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/2017\/08\/02\/safety-first-be-aware-of-frauds-and-scams\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}