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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2014
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Calendar
Thursday, Feb. 20
What: Residency and fee waiver application deadline When: All day Where: University wide About: Contact the Office of the Registrar.
Friday, Feb. 21
What: Veggie Lunch
When: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: Ecumenical Campus
Ministries
About: A free vegetarian meal that
meets every Thursday at the ECM.
What: KU Opera: The Tragedy of Carmen
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Robert Baustian Theatre,
Murphy Hall
About: Tickets $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and students. Advance tickets available exclusively in 460 Murphy Hall.
Saturday, Feb. 22
What: KU School of Architecture,
Design & Planning presents: "Shored Up"
When: Doors 6:30 p.m., show 7 p.m.
Where: Liberty Hall
About: "Shored Up," a documentary
by Ben Kalina, asks tough questions
about coastal communities and humani-
ity's relationship with the land.
Free for all KU students with valid ID
What: Men's Basketball vs. Texas
When: 6:30 p.m.
Where: Allen Fieldhouse
About: The Jayhawks take on the Texas Longhorns at home.
Sunday, Feb. 23
What: The Spencer Consort:
"Baroque Murmurs for Soprano and Flutes"
When: 2:30 p.m.
Where: Spencer Museum of Art
About: The Spencer Consort, a period instrument ensemble, will perform with guest soprano Etta Fung. Admittance is free.
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Young adults are the group most often targeted for online scams, according to the Better Business Bureau. College students are often tricked into giving out personal information while seeking financial aid.
Students most at-risk group for online scams
CODY KUIPER news@kansan.com
Sarah Jacobs, a freshman from Basehor, was doing something typical for a college freshman: looking for a part-time job. While browsing the listings on Craigslist though, she nearly fell victim to an online scam.
Jacobs contacted a poster for a simple receptionist position, but the situation quickly became suspicious after that.
"He started to get me to work for him right away, without doing an interview or any paperwork," Jacobs said. "I kept telling him, 'No, I'm not doing anything for you. I haven't signed any paperwork. I'm not your employee.' But he just kept trying to send me stuff."
Things escalated from there, with the Craiglist poster sending Jacobs a check for $2,400 without having done any work. After doing some research online, she found that multiple people had fallen victim to the same scam, one that attempted to launder money through victims under the guise of a receptionist job.
"If I'm doing anything like that online now, I make sure it has the name of the company and that the location is in the advertisement," Jacobs said. "Sometimes companies won't put their name up and stuff like that, so I know now I have to be more aware of that."
Jacobs is not alone in her brush with an online scam. Young adults are the most atrisk group for online identity theft and scams, according to the Better Business Bureau, and 1 in 10 Internet users has had personal information stolen, according to Pew Research Center.
Amy Schroeder, a sophomore from Colby, nearly fell victim to an online scam as well.
While attempting to sell her laptop on Craiglist, Schroeder got an offer from a man in California who said he would pay via check. When she received the check, it was for $2,500, significantly more than the $400 Schroeder was asking for. The buyer wanted her to cash the check and give the rest of the money to a "friend" of his, but Schroeder became suspicious and reported the situation to her bank, who said it was a common scam to get money from fraudulent checks.
"I think if you're a college student it's easy to get caught up in things like this," Schroeder said. "You think, 'Oh, here's money' but you have to make sure you check the background and make sure you're not being scammed, which I don't think a lot of college students do."
Sergeant Trent McKinley of the Lawrence Police Department said other scams that are currently popular involve scammers posing as the IRS in order to trick Internet users into sending personal information, as well as emails that are purporting to be a sign-up for healthcare. gov.
McKinley said when dealing with these sorts of scams, or any sort of person-to-person interaction with someone you haven't met, users should be aware of certain types of suspicious behavior.
"Any time anybody is asking you to wire money somewhere, that's an indication that you need to consider what they're doing," McKinley said. "When you see things in broken
In some cases, online scammers specifically set their sights on college students and attempt to rope targets in with promises of fake scholarships or cheap student loans. In these instances, students are tricked by official-looking documents or web advertisements and end up paying for a fake service or get tricked into an expensive loan without realizing it. To avoid situations like this, the office of Federal Student Aid says students should never pay for help to find scholarship money and to check with your university before giving personal information to a lender.
English too, where someone is trying to communicate with you and the sentences aren't complete and punctuation and conjugation aren't correct, that's an indication that you may be dealing with someone dealing with you overseas."
If students suspect they have been a victim of an online scam, McKinley said to check for popular scams online and file a complaint with the FBI at www.ic3.gov, but he warned that those who don't spot one early like Jacobs and Schroeder probably don't stand a chance of getting their money back.
"As soon as we determine that the money went to a Western Union location here in town and then maybe got wired to somewhere in South Africa or something like that, our investigation is probably over," McKinley said. "We're probably not going to be able to reach the scammer and get your money back. That's why they like wire transfers, once it's gone, it's gone."
— Edited by Katie Gilbaugh
planting trees in anticipation of its inevitable arrival, but it has not yet been discovered on campus. A quote in the story also incorrectly named the "ash elm trees," which is not a real tree species. Finally, the Environs group's fundraising and educational events will take place in the first two weeks of March and not the last two weeks in February.
CORRECTION
A news story that ran on page three of Wednesday's edition, "Campus club raises money for tree replacement project," incorrectly stated that the ash trees on the Stauffer-Flint lawn have been infested by the emerald ash borer beetle. The beetle has infested trees in several nearby counties, but has not yet been found in Douglas County. The KU Environs Replant Mount Oread initiative is, in part,
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