{"id":14260,"date":"2025-04-22T11:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/?p=14260"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:27:46","slug":"avoid-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/2025\/avoid-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips to recognize and avoid scams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Tips to recognize and avoid scams\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"recognize-and-avoid-social-engineering-schemes-including-phishing-messages-phony-support-calls-and-other-scams\" class=\"wp-block-heading gb-header\">Recognize and avoid social engineering schemes including phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"subheader gb-subheader\">Apple shares tips to avoid scams and learn what to do if you receive suspicious emails, phone calls, or other messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-ca\/102568\">support.apple.com\/en-ca\/102568<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-paragraph\">Social engineering is a type of targeted attack that relies on impersonation, deception, and manipulation to gain access to your personal data. In this attack, scammers will pretend to be representatives of a trusted company or entity over the phone or through other communication methods. They will often use sophisticated tactics to persuade you to hand over personal details such as sign-in credentials, security codes, and financial information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognize and avoid social engineering schemes including phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams Apple shares tips to avoid scams and learn what to do if you receive suspicious emails, phone calls, or other messages. Social engineering is a type of targeted attack that relies on impersonation, deception, and manipulation to gain access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[41,40,18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipad","category-iphone","category-mac-tips","category-tips"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"announcement-alert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14319,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14260\/revisions\/14319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}