{"id":3136,"date":"2025-03-25T11:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2025-03-25T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:34:19","slug":"beware-of-donation-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/2025\/03\/beware-of-donation-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of donation scams!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-teams=\"true\">There has been a noticeable increase in variations of the &#8220;free piano&#8221;\/&#8221;free toolbox&#8221; scam. This scam starts with an email that pretends to be from a UFV employee or their family, and offers a donated item &#8211; like an instrument or a tool &#8211; for only the cost of shipping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\">The scammer will ask you to contact them using your personal email address or text message\/WhatsApp (to avoid detection by email security systems). If you send them the &#8220;shipping fee&#8221;, the scammer disappears with the money, and no item is ever sent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><strong>How to protect yourself from this scam?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-teams=\"true\">Watch out for the usual <a id=\"menur7hl\" class=\"fui-Link ___1q1shib f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1s184ao f1mk8lai fnbmjn9 f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn\" title=\"https:\/\/www.getcybersafe.gc.ca\/en\/resources\/7-red-flags-phishing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getcybersafe.gc.ca\/en\/resources\/7-red-flags-phishing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Link red flags of phishing\">red flags of phishing<\/a>, such as an offer that sounds too good to be true.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-teams=\"true\">If you receive suspicious emails, forward them to <i>phishreport@ufv.ca.<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a noticeable increase in variations of the &#8220;free piano&#8221;\/&#8221;free toolbox&#8221; scam. This scam starts with an email that pretends to be from a UFV employee or their family, and offers a donated item &#8211; like an instrument or a tool &#8211; for only the cost of shipping. The scammer will ask you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AzwP-OA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3139,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}