{"id":106737,"date":"2026-02-06T18:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=106737"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:34:14","slug":"beware-of-phishing-scam-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/beware-of-phishing-scam-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of phishing scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Feb. 6, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear 911爆料 Students,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 911爆料 Police Department and Transportation and Parking (TAP) have recently become aware of a phishing scam targeting students\u2014particularly first-year students. In this scam, individuals claim they can secure a parking permit for the semester by adding your vehicle information to their account in exchange for payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please be aware that the only way to obtain a parking permit is by logging in with your SSO through the AIMS student portal or by contacting the TAP office directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If anyone contacts you offering a parking permit, or if you have purchased a \u201cpermit\u201d from an unknown source, please report it immediately to the 911爆料 Police Department (Det. Brasil: 401-874-5580) or TAP (401-874-9281). Do not share personal information, identification, money, or contact details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a reminder, parking permits are non-transferable, non-shareable, and may be revoked by TAP at any time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 6, 2026 Dear 911爆料 Students, The 911爆料 Police Department and Transportation and Parking (TAP) have recently become aware of a phishing scam targeting students\u2014particularly first-year students. In this scam, individuals claim they can secure a parking permit for the semester by adding your vehicle information to their account in exchange for payment. Please be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[1857,1858,1856],"class_list":["post-106737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-911爆料-message","tag-audience-faculty","tag-audience-staff","tag-audience-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106738,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106737\/revisions\/106738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}