{"id":477,"date":"2021-09-28T15:51:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/?p=477"},"modified":"2021-09-28T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:51:16","slug":"watch-out-for-survey-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/watch-out-for-survey-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for Survey Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scammers are creatively offering cash for your participation in their survey and there is an abundance of these scams focused around the COVID-19 pandemic. Be vigilant to check for common red flags such as grammatical errors and spacing issues. Scammers often will use the name of a Wake Forest employee, but have a mismatched or generic Gmail address, instead of a legitimate WFU address. <strong>Do not respond and do not give your personal information.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subject: PART-TIME SURVEY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a COVID 19 survey and evaluate the services of a few local outlets on how they adhere to COVID 19 protective protocols and get paid $180 1hr: 30minutes every week. This will be done at your own leisure time within the week. You will also be required to procure and purchase some PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)&nbsp; which will be distributed locally to help cushion the spread of COVID-19 in the process of completing the tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: you will be provided with funds to make the purchases and It will not be from your personal funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kindly write back if interested. You will be guided and also provided with more information on how to proceed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Forward suspicious emails to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:infosec@wfu.edu\">infosec@wfu.edu<\/a><\/strong>, and the InfoSec team will investigate the email and can help you decide if it is indeed a scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Review&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/security-essentials\/\">Security Essentials<\/a>&nbsp;to learn more about keeping yourself safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scammers are creatively offering cash for your participation in their survey and there is an abundance of these scams focused around the COVID-19 pandemic. Be vigilant to check for common red flags such as grammatical errors and spacing issues. Scammers often will use the name of a Wake Forest employee, but have a mismatched or&hellip;&NewLine;<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/watch-out-for-survey-scams\/\" title=\"Read more on Watch out for Survey Scams\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,12,14],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}