{"id":61147,"date":"2019-10-07T09:16:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T13:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=61147"},"modified":"2019-10-07T09:16:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T13:16:01","slug":"warning-about-fraudulent-job-ad-and-cheque-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/10\/warning-about-fraudulent-job-ad-and-cheque-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning about fraudulent job ad and cheque scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students and other members of the Brock community should be on alert as attempts have been made to scam multiple students recently through a common cheque-cashing fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The scam originates when the victim responds to a what they think is a real job ad on a reputable job posting website. They are then contacted by someone pretending to be Brock University President Gervan Fearon, who sends them what looks like a real pay cheque. The victims are instructed to deposit the cheque and send payment back in the form of Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>This is a scam and anyone who thinks they have been contacted as part of this fraudulent activity should immediately contact Brock Campus Security at 905-688-5550 x4300.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, any victims who have sent money back as part of this scam should contact Niagara Regional Police at 905-688-4111 or visit a local police detachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and other members of the Brock community should be on alert as attempts have been made to scam multiple students recently through a common cheque-cashing fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61147"}],"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=61147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61150,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61147\/revisions\/61150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}