Campus Watch: Below is a summary of campus activity reported to or observed by The University Police Department Patrol Officers between Tuesday, 01/13/15 and Wednesday, 01/14/15. ****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 PETER O’DONNELL Jr. BUILDING, 201 East 24th Street Theft: An unknown thief literally brought home the bacon when he or she stole two boxes of bacon and two boxes of sausage from a basement level food storage room. Loss value: $200.00. Occurred between 01/12/15 at 5:30 PM and 01/13/15 at 8:30 AM. 2200 Nueces Assist Outside Agency: During a check of a storage area that is commonly known to be frequented by trespassers, a UT Police Officer located a female subject who was found to have two outstanding outside agency arrest warrants for a drug charge and a theft charge. Occurred on 01/13/15 at 10:53 AM. The University of Texas Police Department responded to 14 Alarm Reports, 3 Suspicious Activity Reports, 3 Unsecured Door Reports, 1 Medical Emergency Assist, 1 Motor Vehicle Collision, 3 Traffic Violations, 1 H20 Leak and 2 Public Assist Requests between 01/13/15 and 01/14/15. Prepared by: Ofc. WR π/ To subscribe or unsubscribe, visit http://www.utexas.edu/police/campuswatch/subscribe.php/
