{"id":4673,"date":"2023-09-26T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2023-09-26T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:26:10","slug":"tupd-athletes-parents-are-being-targeted-by-phone-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/09\/26\/tupd-athletes-parents-are-being-targeted-by-phone-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"TUPD: Athletes&#8217; parents are being targeted by phone scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 TROY parents, beware; the Troy University Police Department (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/student-resources\/campus-safety\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TUPD<\/a>) says scam calls are targeting students&#8217; parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a normal day for Troy University softball player D\u2019aun Riggs. That is, until her coach told her team to be on the lookout for a scam that seems to be primarily affecting Troy University athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBefore practice the other day, our coach sat us down and was like, \u2018Just letting y\u2019all know, some people are being affected, being blackmailed and being told that their student athletes are in jail and they need $1,000 to get them out\u2019,\u201d Riggs said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to TUPD, scammers call students\u2019 parents and tell them that their student is in jail at the Troy University Police Department. They then ask parents to send money via Cash App as a way to pay bond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cThe Troy University Police Department, nor most any other law enforcement agency, will not operate that way. We will never ask parents to Cash App or Venmo funds for any reason.\u201d<\/p><cite> Troy University Police Chief George Beaudry<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Troy University Police Department doesn\u2019t have a jail. If your Troy University student were to get into the kind of trouble where they would need to be placed in jail, that call would likely come from the Pike County Jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beaudry urges students to warn their parents about these types of scams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe just want everybody to know that they should always be skeptical of that type of a phone call,\u201d Beaudry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to keep her family safe, Riggs has a code word with her parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s what a lot of people are trying to do, like, a code word so they\u2019re like, oh, is this actually you?\u201d Riggs said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are ever concerned about the validity of a phone call from the TUPD, <a href=\"https:\/\/sos.troy.edu\/information.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">call the department<\/a> at (334) 670-3215.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 TROY parents, beware; the Troy University Police Department (TUPD) says scam calls are targeting students&#8217; parents.<\/p>\n<p>It was a normal day for Troy University softball player D\u2019aun Riggs. That is, until her coach told her team to be on the lookout for a scam that seems to be primarily affecting Troy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/09\/26\/tupd-athletes-parents-are-being-targeted-by-phone-scammers\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":4683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127,34],"tags":[270,516,979,1166,1090],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-sports","tag-campus-safety","tag-george-beaudry","tag-parents-of-troy","tag-scam-calls","tag-tupd","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}