{"id":25854,"date":"2013-12-20T15:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T20:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=25854"},"modified":"2013-12-23T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:41:10","slug":"univeristy-warns-of-bogus-cheque-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/12\/univeristy-warns-of-bogus-cheque-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"University warns of bogus cheque scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/counterfeit-cheque.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25855\" title=\"Closeup of cheque\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/counterfeit-cheque-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Closeup of cheque\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brock University is once again warning the public about bogus cheques that appear to be issued by the University and are being circulated as part of a secret shopper scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The cheques have been issued to people responding to an online advertisement seeking secret shoppers to evaluate the customer service at a major retail outlet and a money transfer service.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents are couriered phony cheques bearing the University&#8217;s name and address, as well as the name of a major bank. People are directed to cash the cheques and wire a large portion of funds to a third party, under the guise of carrying out a secret shopper mission at the money transfer service. Meanwhile, the cheque bounces, leaving the recipient on the hook for its value.<\/p>\n<p>The bank account from which the fake cheques are written is invalid.<\/p>\n<p>So far the University has received one complaint about such a cheque, valued at $950.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who receives cheque that appears to be from Brock as a result of responding to a secret shopper ad is advised to destroy the cheques immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is once again warning the public about bogus cheques that appear to be issued by the University and are being circulated as part of a secret shopper scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":25855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1519,659],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25858,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25854\/revisions\/25858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}