UW System College Scam

[pojo]

This was an interesting email when I received it in my campus mailbox.



To the UW Green Bay Community:

SCAM ALERT

Several UW-Platteville students were contacted yesterday by telephone and informed that they had WON a scholarship. The caller was seeking bank info, SSN info, mother's maiden name, and all the other info necessary for identify theft, credit card or bank scam.

The University Police at UW Green Bay were contacted this morning by a UWGB student who reported receiving a similar call from an individual also claiming to be verifying a scholarship that had been won. The caller was looking for home address information, length the student had lived at the residence, where the student had been employed, SSN and bank
information. Fortunately the student hung up before giving out too much information.

This is a SCAM !!

Please report any phone calls like this immediately to University Police
(465-****).

NEVER give out your Social Security Number, financial or personal
information to anyone not authorized to utilize it. NEVER give out
sensitive or personal information over the phone. Guard your identity !

Be informed ... be safe... and be aware !

[StormCrazyIowan]

Whew! Just glad to hear they had the sense to hang up! It's sick the way them creeps try to take advantage of college students!

[Guest]

Scams seem to be a dime a dozen these days.........