{"id":111817,"date":"2026-11-02T17:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=111817"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:20:02","slug":"beware-of-phishing-scam-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/11\/beware-of-phishing-scam-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of phishing scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Nov. 2, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear URI Students,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The URI Police Department and Transportation and Parking (TAP) have recently become aware of a phishing scam targeting URI students. The scammer claims to be able to get you a parking permit for the academic year by putting your vehicle\u2019s information under their account in return for money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only way to obtain a parking permit at any time is by using your SSO to log in to the AIMS student portal or by contacting the TAP office directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If anyone reaches out to you offering a parking permit, please report them to the URI Police Dept (Det. Sgt. Georgitsis or Det. Brown: (401-874-5580) or TAP (401-874-9281) immediately. Do not send personal information, identification, money or contact information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A friendly reminder that permits are non-transferable, non-shareable and can be revoked by TAP at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 2, 2026 Dear URI Students, The URI Police Department and Transportation and Parking (TAP) have recently become aware of a phishing scam targeting URI students. The scammer claims to be able to get you a parking permit for the academic year by putting your vehicle\u2019s information under their account in return for money. The [&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-111817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-message","tag-audience-faculty","tag-audience-staff","tag-audience-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111817","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=111817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111819,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111817\/revisions\/111819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}