{"id":461,"date":"2018-10-15T12:16:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T16:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=461"},"modified":"2018-10-15T14:53:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T18:53:49","slug":"robocalls-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/robocalls-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Robocalls from New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is an informational post about recent complaints CIS has received about voicemail messages left on phones around the campus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have received numerous reports of phone calls coming into campus with an inbound phone number from New York City (area code 212) where the caller leaves a voicemail message of varying lengths.\u00a0 All callers are reported to be speaking an East Asian language.<\/p>\n<p>These phone calls are a well-known scam that targets Asian Americans.\u00a0 It is similar to the United States based IRS scam, where a caller purports to be calling from the IRS about owing money.\u00a0 In this case, the ruse is that the target person is being investigated by the Consulate.\u00a0 If a payment is made to the caller, the complaint will be dropped.<\/p>\n<p>These calls are not malicious but engaging with the caller could lead to a loss of personal funds.\u00a0 Please do not engage the caller at all.\u00a0 If the person leaves a voicemail and you have voicemail to email capability, please forward it to <a href=\"mailto:catchoftheday@vassar.edu\">catchoftheday@vassar.edu<\/a> so we can track the complaints.\u00a0 After forwarding you are free to delete the original voicemail.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this type of scam, please see this article from earlier this year:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/05\/10\/609117134\/chinese-robocalls-bombarding-the-u-s-are-part-of-an-international-phone-scam\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/05\/10\/609117134\/chinese-robocalls-bombarding-the-u-s-are-part-of-an-international-phone-scam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to all who have reported this and keep the suspicious emails (and phone calls!) coming.\u00a0 Your contributions help keep Vassar safe and secure from Phishing, Spam, Fraud, Viruses, and all sorts of cyber criminal activity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an informational post about recent complaints CIS has received about voicemail messages left on phones around the campus. We have received numerous reports of phone calls coming into campus with an inbound phone number from New York City (area code 212) where the caller leaves a voicemail message of varying lengths.\u00a0 All callers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/robocalls-nyc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robocalls from New York City<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}