RRU Student Services and IT Security are reaching out to you to let you know about a recent incident that affected someone in our community, and to provide you with some guidance in case you find yourself in a similar situation.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what happened:<\/p>\n
A recent RRU graduate received a phone call from someone who claimed<\/em> to be a \u201cCorrectional Officer\u201d from Abbotsford BC.\u00a0 This person tried to convince our graduate that some of their documentation was \u201cincomplete\u201d and then started to pressure our graduate to resubmit documentation to him.\u00a0 Next, our graduate received a phone call from someone pretending<\/em> to be an RRU Associate Faculty member, who stated that the required documents had never been received by RRU and this was going to affect the graduate\u2019s ability to attend convocation. \u00a0\u00a0Both individuals were putting great pressure on our graduate to resubmit information to them.<\/p>\n Fortunately, in this case the individual involved reached out to the Student Services who were able to provide assistance.<\/p>\n Sadly, this is one of numerous scam phone calls being made by criminals who are trying to steal identities or blackmail international students.\u00a0 They are counting on international students who are not familiar with Canadian processes and laws not wanting to get in trouble with our authorities.<\/p>\n What can you do?\u00a0 Here are a few tips from the Canadian Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship website:<\/p>\n If you\u2019re still not sure, please reach out to \u00a0Student Services at: studentservices@royalroads.ca<\/a><\/p>\n Finally, please be very careful about what you post on social media.\u00a0 Cyber criminals will browse social media looking for people who are potentially vulnerable who have included too much personal information in their posts.\u00a0 Make sure you have appropriate security controls set on all of your online accounts and that you don\u2019t post any personal information.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve included a poster from IRCC<\/a> that has some additional tips about avoiding immigration fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RRU Student Services and IT Security are reaching out to you to let you know about a recent incident that affected someone in our community, and to provide you with some guidance in case you find yourself in a similar… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":2441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration-information","category-notices","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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