Campus Watch: Below is a summary of campus activity reported to or observed by The University Police Department Patrol Officers between Monday 01/12/15 and Tuesday, 01/13/15. ****Scam Alerts**** The Federal Bureau of Investigations has alerted campus law enforcement to a few scams that are targeting university, faculty, staff and students. In one scam, the scam artist, sends a fake e-mail to a university employee indicating a change in the employee’s Human Resource Status. The e-mail directs the employee to log onto their human resource web to see the change in status and provides a link that is similar in appearance to the actual web site. The scam artist then captures the employee’s log-in credentials as they log into their website. The scam artist would then use the log-on to change the employee’s paycheck bank account routing number to the thief’s bank account routing number. In the other scam, the scammer sends an e-mail to a university student’s university e-mail address to offer a “work from home” job with a fictitious company’s payroll or human resources office. The student is then asked for their bank account routing number. A sum of money is then transferred into the student’s account. Once the money is in the student’s account, the student is directed to transfer that money into another account that is involved in the account. This is a method of the scammer using a legitimate bank account of a third party to steal money form another’s bank account. For more information on these scams, please see the attached Public Service Announcements ASBEL-SMITH PARKING GARAGE, 201 West 7th Street Graffiti: A silver colored paint pen was used to write letters on the west exterior wall. Removal cost: $50.00. Discovered on 01/12/15 at 11:37 PM. ERNEST COCKRELL Jr HALL, 301 East Dean Keeton Criminal Mischief: A UT Police Officer located a name written in pencil on a 1st floor hallway wall. Removal cost: $20.00. Discovered on 01/12/15 at 9:08 AM. Did You Know: When calculating the cost of repairs, the equipment used to remove something as trivial as pencil marks is not the only factor to determining the cost of criminal mischief and graffiti. One must also consider the time and pay that is required to have an employee remove such markings. GATEWAY APARTMENTS, 1644 West 6th Street Criminal Mischief: The right front window was broken out of a silver colored Honda Civic while the vehicle was parked by building 1644 at the Gateway Apartment Complex. No items inside the vehicle were disturbed or missing. Repair cost: $150.00. Occurred between 01/11/15 at 4:00 PM and 01/12/15 at 6:45 PM. SAN JACINTO RESIDENCE HALL, 309 East 21st Street Theft: A set of blue bed sheets, a bedspread, a tan pillow case, a white, brown and black checkered sweater and three pair of jeans were stolen out of a dryer located inside a ground floor laundry room. Loss value: $35.00. Occurred on 01/12/15 between 6:30 PM and 8:00 PM. WALTER WEBB HALL, 2500 Guadalupe Theft: An Apple Mac Mini was stolen from an unsecured 2nd floor conference room. Loss value: $1,000.00. Occurred between 01/09/14 at 4:00 PM and 01/12/14 at 1:00 PM. 6000 North Mopac Speeding / Driving on an Invalid Driver’s License / Assist Outside Agency: A non-UT subject was stopped for driving a Toyota faster than the posted speed limit allowed. The driver was found to have an invalid driver’s license and three outstanding outside agency arrest warrants for failure to maintain financial responsibility (insurance) driving with an expired inspection and speeding – wouldn’t you know. Occurred on 01/12/15 at 7:55 PM. 2100 Speedway Disregarding a Stop Sign / Assist Outside Agency: A UT student was stopped for running a stop sign while driving a purple Camaro. The student was found to have an outstanding outside agency arrest warrant for driving a motor vehicle with no driver’s license. Occurred on 01/12/15 at 11:47 PM. The University of Texas Police Department responded to 7 Alarm Reports, 1 Fire Alarm Activation, 1 Suspicious Activity Report, 4 Unsecured Door Reports, 2 Welfare Concern Reports, 1 Medical Emergency Assist, and 2 Public Assist Requests between 01/12/15 and 01/13/15. Prepared by: Ofc. WR π/ To subscribe or unsubscribe, visit http://www.utexas.edu/police/campuswatch/subscribe.php/
