Juan N. Franco, UNL’s vice chancellor for student affairs, on Sept. 2 issued the following statement in English and Mandarin to 1,200 UNL students from China.
我们的IT工作人员注意到有些学生，特别是中国学生的QQ邮箱收到信息，被要求重新设置密码和安全问题。请大家不要回应诸如此类的信息！这些信息伪装成合法正常信息发到你的QQ邮箱，但是他们是非法的！一位中国学生说改了密码和安全问题后，电脑黑客可以侵入他/她家人联系信息。然后这个电脑黑客伪装成该学生让在中国的父母转35000美元给他/她。他/她父母转账后，钱就消失了并且无法追踪！这周又有另一位中国学生被骗了7000美元。
如果你收到了类似的信息，请不要回复。并请告知到我们的办公室类似信息，我们会继续和IT工作人员沟通并且提醒其他学生诸如此类的骗局。
同时也烦请告知您的父母，如果他们收到任何要求他们转账大量金额的信息，请他们用其他联系方式与你确认（最好是用电话），确定是你本人要求他们转账。
Juan N. Franco Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
It has come to my attention through our IT team that several students, particularly Chinese nationals, have received a message that appears to be from qq.com. If you receive such a message and it asks you to reset your password and safety questions, do not respond. The message in question is disguised as being legitimately from qq.com, but it is not. One student reported that once she changed her password and security questions, a hacker had access to her family’s contact information as well. The hacker then posing as the student, requested money from the parents in China, and when they wired $35,000, it vanished and is untraceable. This week another student’s family lost over $7000 in this scam.
If you receive such a message, please do not respond. Please report any such message to my office and I will continue to work with Information Technology to alert students to possible scams.
Please also advise your parents that if they receive what looks like a message from you requesting a large amount of money, they should confirm with you through a different medium (preferably by phone) that the request did really come from you.
Thank you.
Juan N. Franco,
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
