AUT: Chinese student loses $70k in a scam
Sally Lin was just one semester in to a business degree at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) when she lost NZD $70,000 in a scam.
Sally arrived in New Zealand
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University of Waterloo student scammed for $100k
Aaron Yau is a second year student at the University of Waterloo School of Optometry and Vision Science. In late 2020 Aaron lost almost CAD $100,000 in a scam.
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Aaron
Crowdfunding saves international student scam victims
Scams against international students have become a huge problem in all of the main countries where international students choose to study.
International students often get tricked by scammers because they:
are living
NZ: Indian international student scammed for $7000
An international student in NZ has been scammed out of $7000 in a government impostor - visa scam.
On 14 December the student, Kulwant Gill, was contacted by a caller
BU international students lose $300k in scams
In 2020 criminals have stolen almost US$300,000 from Boston University (BU) international students in 22 scams says the Boston University Police Department.
Half of the scam incidents occurred in a
HMRC warns unis on scams targeting students
In October the Head of Cyber Operations in HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) wrote Vice-Cahncellors of UK universities to warn of scams targeting students in the new academic year.
He predicted
US visa scam targets international students
US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) has issued a warning about a visa scam targeting international students.
ICE says that the scam involves the following steps:
The scammer says they are a
International student loses $30k in cryptocurrency scam
Bhavesh Patel, an Indian international student in Australia, lost A$30,000 in a cryptocurreny scam.
The scam was run by Sydney businessman and man-about-town, Harpreet Singh Sahni. He had a range
International student scammed for $43,000
Xinlu Liang, 22, a Chinese grad student at the University of Southern California has bravely told the story of how in 2019 she lost $43,000 to a ‘government impostor’ scam.
Xinlu Liang