{"id":877,"date":"2019-12-13T15:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/?p=877"},"modified":"2021-03-16T16:20:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:20:29","slug":"it-security-advisory-car-wrap-scam-targets-college-students-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/2019\/12\/13\/it-security-advisory-car-wrap-scam-targets-college-students-and-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Security Advisory: Car wrap scam targets college students and staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t ruin your holidays \u2013 These scams are not new, there is only easy money for the scammers. Please remember that you are the last line of defense \u2013 Think and research offers before you act and warn others of these scams before they fall for them.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumer.ftc.gov\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-881\" src=\"\/iti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/12\/consumer-alerts-01_original.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/12\/consumer-alerts-01_original.png 700w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/12\/consumer-alerts-01_original-300x51.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumer.ftc.gov\/blog\/2019\/12\/car-wrap-scam-targets-college-students?utm_source=govdelivery\"><strong>Car wrap scam targets college students<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Ari Lazarus<br \/>\nConsumer Education Specialist, FTC<\/p>\n<p>If you have a car, you know how expensive the upkeep can be. Gas, maintenance, parking \u2013 the whole lot. So what if a company offered to pay you to drive around \u2013 which you were already doing \u2013 with their branding wrapped onto your car? It could sound like a good deal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumer.ftc.gov\/blog\/2019\/12\/car-wrap-scam-targets-college-students?utm_source=govdelivery\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prior FTC Blog from 2016: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumer.ftc.gov\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-spot-car-wrap-scam\">https:\/\/www.consumer.ftc.gov\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-spot-car-wrap-scam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>See below for recent examples of this scam showing up in WCSU e-mail accounts:<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-880\" src=\"\/iti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/12\/email-scam-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/12\/email-scam-edited.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/12\/email-scam-edited-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-879\" src=\"\/iti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/12\/email-scam-2-edited.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/12\/email-scam-2-edited.png 446w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2019\/12\/email-scam-2-edited-262x300.png 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t ruin your holidays \u2013 These scams are not new, there is only easy money for the scammers. Please remember that you are the last line of defense \u2013 Think and research offers before you act and warn others of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}