{"id":2009,"date":"2020-05-04T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/educationfinance\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2020-05-04T16:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:01:09","slug":"general-145-information-increased-fraud-risk-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/general-145-information-increased-fraud-risk-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"General 145: Information &#8211; Increased fraud risk during the (COVID-19) pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: blue;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\"><b><u>Please see below from the ESFA Update &#8211; Latest news for local authorities: 22 April 2020<br \/>\n<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 10.5pt\">Periods of instability, such as during the coronavirus pandemic, bring an increased risk of fraud. Fraudsters will actively exploit these difficult times and will target vulnerable areas for financial gain.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have been informed some learners and parents have received a letter from ESFA asking for personal learner bank details in relation to the 16 to 19 Bursary Fund. We never ask for personal bank account details. This is a fraudulent letter \u2013 please do not respond.<\/p>\n<p>Where possible, it would be helpful for institutions to share this message with parents and students through your communication channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please see below from the ESFA Update &#8211; Latest news for local authorities: 22 April 2020 Periods of instability, such as during the coronavirus pandemic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[36,37,38],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-esfa","tag-fraud","tag-risk"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 01:57:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}