Sep 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Several members of our campus community have reported receiving robocalls in Chinese. The message, translated by our partners in UD’s English Language Institute, claims that a package is waiting for you at the Chinese Embassy. The message goes on to explain that...
Feb 16, 2017 | Telephone Scams
Phones are abuzz with calls from utility scammers. We’ve seen reports of two basic kinds of utility scams that are costing customers up to thousands of dollars. Both of these scams start with phone calls from scammers “spoofing” caller ID in order to impersonate a...
Jan 25, 2017 | Telephone Scams
Vishing starts with a phone call and could end with the victim losing money or important personal information. Phishing scams use suspicious emails to target their victims, and vishing does the same thing over the phone. Many users know to be wary of scams online;...
Jan 11, 2017 | Telephone Scams
We warned you: tax scam season has begun. We’ve received our first report of a tax scam affecting a member of the UD community. A UD graduate student reported a suspicious phone call from a scammer posing as an FBI agent. The scammer informed the student that...
Aug 10, 2016 | Telephone Scams
Scammers targeting UD students and employees are growing bolder; in a recent vishing attempt, a scammer spoofed a UD phone number (beginning 302-831) to call a UD student. The scammer claimed to be from the University, and asked for the potential victim’s...
