{"id":48342,"date":"2017-12-07T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=48342"},"modified":"2017-12-07T17:28:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T22:28:26","slug":"students-warned-of-ransom-scam-in-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/12\/students-warned-of-ransom-scam-in-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"Students warned of ransom scam in Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Campus Security is warning Brock students to be wary of a recent scam being seen across Ontario.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While there have been no reported incidents in Niagara, international students in other areas of the province have been targeted by scammers running a fake kidnapping scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victims are told to go into hiding without contacting the police or telling anyone where they\u2019re going. They are told their family in their home country will be harmed if they don\u2019t comply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scammer then tells the victim\u2019s parents their child has been kidnapped and demands a ransom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGiven the number of international students we have here at Brock from all over the world, we felt it was important to be proactive,\u201d said Karl Thorp, Campus Security Senior Platoon Supervisor. \u201cWe want to give our students information about how to respond to those calls if they ever happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thorp advised students to contact Niagara Regional Police if they receive a call of this nature. If it happens on campus, students can also call Campus Security at x3200.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emergency contact information is easily accessible through the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/apps\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock Security app<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thorp encouraged students to remain in contact with their families to reduce the risk they will become victims of this scam. He also reminded the Brock community to contact Campus Security or police should they witness any suspicious activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Security is warning Brock students to be wary of a recent scam being seen across Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[4912],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48342"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48349,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48342\/revisions\/48349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}