Thanks, Maricela. I suspect this goes beyond faculty P&T reviews to journal manuscript reviews, based on an experience I had last year, in which I declined compensation before any such details of my bank account were requested by the journal.
Betty
From: Maricela Oliva <Maricela.Oliva@utsa.edu>
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 10:34 AM
To: "coehd@lists.it.utsa.edu" <coehd@lists.it.utsa.edu>
Cc: Maricela Oliva <Maricela.Oliva@utsa.edu>
Subject: [Coehd] FW: Invitation As External Assessor For Universiti Putra Malaysia (Associate Professor Dr. Zulhamri Abdullah )
Colleagues,
Please be aware of the following scam that was reported to us by a COEHD professor emeritus. It may be the first such item to surface at UTSA but they wanted to alert UTSA so that we could get the word out to
prevent anyone from being victimized. Details are:
- A professor emeritus was contacted via her UTSA email address and asked to conduct a review/evaluation of a candidate for Associate Professor from a university
abroad.
- Having conducted many such reviews, the UTSA professor emeritus agreed and sent a review of the candidate and her/his materials.
- She subsequently received a thank you from the institution and a comment that they would provide compensation for the review.
- Compensation is never a part of faculty assessments and review for promotion and tenure, so the professor emeritus was taken aback.
- She became further alarmed when the institution asked for all of her banking information, namely:
Bank :
IBAN :
ROUTING NO :
Bank Account no. :
Bank Account Beneficiary :
SWIFT Code :
Sort Code :
Bank Address :
Passport No :
Residential Address :
This convinced her that the request for her to evaluate a faculty member was a ruse to get her financial information and she did not provide it. However, she wanted
to make sure others are alerted to this so that they act extremely cautiously with such requests and do not fall for a ruse. Please share the information with others to avoid having someone at UTSA become a victim of a financial scam.
Ii am providing the faculty member’s full email thread below for information, but you should be able to notify others by forwarding only my brief email.
Regards,
Maricela
Maricela Oliva, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Faculty Issues & Development
UTSA
College of Education & Human Development
AERA-J Chair, Host City Social Justice Initiative for 2017
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
The University of Texas at San Antonio
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