{"id":1238,"date":"2015-10-05T11:36:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2015-10-19T10:02:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T14:02:34","slug":"phone-scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2015\/10\/05\/phone-scam-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone Scam Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phone scams &#8212; whether for toner deals, printer verification, &#8220;Miscrosoft &#8221; tech support or others &#8212; are reported by members of the campus from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>Be on the alert for a current toner scam from a caller offering toner at a &#8220;reduced price&#8221; that we had &#8220;previously ordered but had arrived late. The caller may even ask for your P-Card number and have a few details about your department (in the report, a &#8220;John Wilson&#8221; referenced a recently purchased HP color printer). This particular caller provided a couple of phone numbers, including 1-800-450-3921 (an internet search found this on a bogus &#8220;Supply Services&#8221; website) and a campus extension that was a variation on this.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive such a call you should terminate it quickly. Please notify the IT Helpdesk or University Police of these calls.\u00a0If you choose, you may also file a complaint with the FTC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov\/#crnt\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov\/#crnt<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phone scams &#8212; whether for toner deals, printer verification, &#8220;Miscrosoft &#8221; tech support or others &#8212; are reported by members of the campus from time to time. Be on the alert for a current toner scam from a caller offering toner at a &#8220;reduced price&#8221; that we had &#8220;previously ordered but had arrived late. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}