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This page is mainly about fraud you may face after you came to UC Davis, (Or even before the quarter starts!) so try to read carefully about this page if you have time.
Email Fraud
You may receive mail fraud in your school mail account. Usually they are about internship opportunities or something. The sender will declare that he's a professor or UC Davis official, and ask you to fill your personal information in their website.
The best way to identify is to check the sender's email address. It should be ended with like "@ucdavis.edu", especially if the mail is sent as a faculty. If not, then it probably is a mail fraud. Another way to avoid the mails is just ignore the mails that appears unreasonably.
For example, I received a email from a "professor", who asked recipients to be a temporary assistance, which requires little professional knowledge and has a quite high salary. You should be doubtful at any mail like that!
You may receive message from UC Davis official to teach you how to identify email fraud.
Text Message Fraud
You may also receive text message fraud easily. However it's not because you are UC Davis student, but any one can receive this kind of fraud. (On the right is one of message fraud I received. The way I identify it is because I don't register a Venmo account yet before I receive it!)
Text message fraud will pretend it's from official like Amazon, Bank of America, and Venmo etc. They will tell you that your account is locked, and you need to go to a website to unfreeze your account. Sometimes you may get cheated suddenly because you are tired or something like you just waked up. So be careful at clicking any link and when entering personal information!
The best way to check your account status is to login on official website instead of using the link from the message.
Phone Call Fraud
Phone call fraud is similar to text message fraud. Remember not to be nervous and too worried when you hear surprising information, like FBI is looking for you or something. Otherwise you may expose important information when you are afraid and confused.
Just shut down if you think the phone call is ridiculous. I've warned by FBI nearly ten times since I came to UC Davis and I'm still not caught yet! : )
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