[Wactclc-alma] Fraudulent student accounts

[Martin, Melinda]

Thank you for the heads-up, Kirsti.  That is really disturbing.
Please keep us posted with any information.  I wonder if there are any other colleges hit by the same scheme!
-M

From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> On Behalf Of Thomas, Kirsti
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 5:56 PM
To: WACTCLC Alma Discussion <wactclc-alma at lists.ctc.edu>
Subject: [Wactclc-alma] Fraudulent student accounts


Hey folks,

Our Student Services and eLearning staff recently identified just over 100 student accounts that seem to be fraudulent. The accounts seem to have been created for the purpose of obtaining money from Financial Aid.  All of the accounts identified are registered for classes this quarter.

Kevin Bowersox-Johnson, the eLearning director at Seattle Colleges, has contacted SBCTC and the State Auditor. He also sent an email out to the statewide eLearning Committee with details of how he was able to identify the fraudulent accounts.

Interestingly, one of the things Kevin discovered is that most of the address provided by these fraudulent accounts belong to properties up for sale.

I don't think there's much of a threat to the libraries from these accounts, but I'm going to be working with Kevin Bowersox-Johnson and our IT staff to flag/deactivate any of these accounts in Alma.

That's probably going to be a manual job for now, but we're going to work on figuring out how to update Alma user records when the accounts have been flagged as fraudulent in ctcLink. That may not happen until Spring Quarter or later.  I'll share details with Wade when I have them.

You all might want to contact your eLearning folks.

Kirsti S. Thomas
Library Technical Services Manager
Seattle Colleges
kirsti.thomas at seattlecolleges.edu<mailto:kirsti.thomas at seattlecolleges.edu>








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