{"id":7290,"date":"2019-03-25T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2019-03-25T09:24:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:24:27","slug":"scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/2019\/03\/25\/scam-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Scam Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, scammers have been impersonating ACU personnel asking employees to purchase gift cards and send the information electronically back to the scammers. Often these messages have an element of urgency and a promise that the employees will be reimbursed. Please do not reply to messages like these and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/mail\/answer\/8253?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/support.google.com\/mail\/answer\/8253?hl%3Den&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1553606070029000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH3o3KzAYQlKSzbig3PUiEDXM7YOg\">report these messages as phishing<\/a>. As a reminder, ACU&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acu.edu\/community\/offices\/administrative\/procurement\/pcard\/prohibited-purchases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.acu.edu\/community\/offices\/administrative\/procurement\/pcard\/prohibited-purchases.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1553606070029000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH-BH5kny2PTqxepx7xSHIh6pU0EQ\">purchasing card policy<\/a>\u00a0explicitly prohibits the purchase of gift cards.\u00a0If you have questions regarding the legitimacy of a email, you can always verify the authenticity of such email requests by contacting the impersonated person directly by phone or in-person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, scammers have been impersonating ACU personnel asking employees to purchase gift cards and send the information electronically back to the scammers. Often these messages have an element of urgency and a promise that the employees will be reimbursed. Please do not reply to messages like these and\u00a0report these messages as phishing. As a reminder, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7291,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions\/7291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}