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One more example of attempted fraud

22 February 2017      Matt Sisson, Projects and Membership Manager

...hot off the press. Several universities have received phone calls from people purporting to be from energy/utility companies, and asking the university for invoice details "as they have a problem with their system". In one instance, when prompted to provide further details, the caller became vague, which signalled all was perhaps not as it seemed. A follow-up phone call to the utility company in question then confirmed systems were fine, and the call was fraudulent. Please let your staff know not to provide any invoice details to unconfirmed callers, as these will then be used to make more probing, realistic calls that could result in changed supplier details, or to undertake more convincing frauds.



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