[Intl-stu] FW: Message from Dr. Tomas Aguirre, Dean of Students

[International Students]

This email is a follow-up from the email from Dr. Aguirre's email sent out earlier today.  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has some great information on how to avoid scams that target non-citizens at http://www.uscis.gov/avoid-scams and you may also go to http://www.scam-detector.com/travel-scams/airline-ticket-credit-fraud for more information about different types of scams.  Please be sure to read this helpful information.

As a general rule NEVER NEVER NEVER provide your personal information (bank information, credit card information, SSN, passport number, etc) to anyone over the phone.  If someone calls you and says any of the following please contact the ISSS or University Police Department immediately:

·       Says they are from immigration (USCIS, Immigration Customs Enforcement, etc) and they say you will be deported or your visa status is in jeopardy if you do not make a payment to them immediately.

·       Asks for your personal information (credit card number, social security number, date of birth, driver's license number, passport number, etc).
·       Says they are from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and that you must pay a penalty immediately or you will be arrested or deported.

...and as Dr. Aguirre stated, if a deal seems too good to be true it probably is not true.



John Mark Jones, Director
Office of International Student & Scholar Services
John.Jones at tamuc.edu<mailto:John.Jones at tamuc.edu>

Mail: P.O. Box 3011 | Commerce, TX 75429
Ship: 2600 W. Neal Street | Commerce, TX 75428
Tel. 903.886.5097 | Fax 903.468.3200 | www.tamuc.edu/isso<http://www.tamuc.edu/isso>

[cid:image003.jpg at 01D24FDD.3B0FBEA0]

Please take a moment and complete our ISSS survey<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ckw_eK4WZvar7CxQyZzxKtm8fXRYXrX4egOR-2CFp_U/viewform> and provide feedback on how we are doing.

From: John Jones
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 3:04 PM
To: intl-stu at tamuc.edu<mailto:intl-stu at tamuc.edu>
Subject: Message from Dr. Tomas Aguirre, Dean of Students

Dear students,

As you complete your finals and prepare for a well-deserved winter break, we encourage you to be very careful when booking both domestic and international travel. There have been reported incidents of scam artists posing as travel brokers and offering discounted airfare to students. Students book their trips and receive travel itineraries that have been purchased with stolen credit and debit cards. Afterwards they are asked to deposit cash directly into the travel brokers bank account through a local bank. Eventually the tickets are cancelled because they were purchased illegally and the students are left without tickets and money. Please remember that if a deal seem too good to be true than it probably is not. Always purchase tickets through a certified travel agent or airlines and never deposit cash into a personal bank account or send a money order or travelers check to an unverifiable address. If you have any questions please contact your local law enforcement agency or campus police.

Best,

Tomás
________

Open office hours for students only - W 3-4 and Th 10-11
Free lunch? Join me for the "Dine with Dean" program

Tomás A. Aguirre, Ed.D. | Assistant Vice President & Dean of Students
Campus Life & Student Development
Tomas.Aguirre at tamuc.edu<mailto:Tomas.Aguirre at tamuc.edu>

Mail: P.O. Box 3011 | Commerce, TX 75429
Ship: 2600 South Neal Street | Commerce, TX 75428
Tel: 903.886.5153 | Fax: 903.468.6040 | www.tamuc.edu<http://www.tamuc.edu>

[cid:image007.png at 01D24FCA.B6AF8530]
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-COMMERCE
Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/tamuc> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/tamuc_news> | Blog<http://sites.tamuc.edu/news/> | Instagram<http://instagram.com/tamuc> | YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/lionsmedia>


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.tamuc.edu/pipermail/intl-stu/attachments/20161206/ff3d8afa/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image007.png
Type: image/png
Size: 121760 bytes
Desc: image007.png
URL: <http://mailman.tamuc.edu/pipermail/intl-stu/attachments/20161206/ff3d8afa/attachment-0001.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image003.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 6319 bytes
Desc: image003.jpg
URL: <http://mailman.tamuc.edu/pipermail/intl-stu/attachments/20161206/ff3d8afa/attachment-0001.jpg>