{"id":467,"date":"2024-09-12T19:22:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/?page_id=467"},"modified":"2026-06-24T01:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:52:38","slug":"fraud_alerts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/fraud_alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraud Alert Tips to Safeguard MTSU Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The following is information regarding Fraud Alerts of which MTSU employees should be aware. &nbsp;As a precaution, follow the steps below to safeguard&nbsp;MTSU and State financial and operational assets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"is-style-compact-list wp-block-list\">\n<li>Do not provide personal information or information about MTSU, including the University&#8217;s structure or network information, to any individual by phone or email unless you are certain of a person&#8217;s authority to have the information.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do not reveal personal or financial information in email.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do not respond to email solicitations for MTSU financial or contractual information.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do not send sensitive and financial information over the Internet\u00a0without authenticating the legitimacy of a vendor, or verifying\u00a0the vendor&#8217;s identity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pay close attention to the email address of a sender, as there may be minor errors in the sender&#8217;s address if it is a fictitious email posing as real vendor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pay close attention to emails that contain multiple spelling and grammatical errors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Notify MTSU&#8217;s ITD Department in you receive a fictitious email or suspicious phone call requesting financial or personal information at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:help@mtsu.edu\">abuse@mtsu.edu<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You may also contact the State of Tennessee&#8217;s Treasury Department Division of Claims and Risk Management Director at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:rodney.escobar@tn.gov\">rodney.escobar@tn.gov<\/a>\u00a0regarding suspected financial scams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is information regarding Fraud Alerts of which MTSU employees should be aware. &nbsp;As a precaution, follow the steps below to safeguard&nbsp;MTSU and State financial and operational assets:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-467","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/caerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}