In cases like this, you have to trust your instincts. I personally would also not provide all of the information that was requested and it would be a red flag for me about possible identity theft. Even if the
requester was not the problem, how would this information be safeguarded from other misuse or hacking? Do they really need my Passport #, Address, Bank routing? The address is necessary if they are sending a check, but if so, not the bank number.
However, if this is a standard practice internationally, those of us who work with international institutions could initiate a conversation about how to do compensation and reimbursement in ways that safeguard
payees and do not raise red flags. Also, it would seem important to raise the reimbursement issue early on, which was not done in this case; it happened after the fact.
Thanks for the good discussion.
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
One UTSA Circle, MB 2.438
San Antonio, TX 78249
(210) 458-5832
“…the truest eye may now belong to the migrant’s double vision.” homi k. bhabha
From: Juliet Langman
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 9:28 PM
To: Timothy Yuen <Timothy.Yuen@utsa.edu>
Cc: Maricela Oliva <Maricela.Oliva@utsa.edu>; coehd@lists.it.utsa.edu
Subject: Re: [Coehd] Re: FW: Invitation As External Assessor For Universiti Putra Malaysia (Associate Professor Dr. Zulhamri Abdullah )
Same thing happens in Finland- regarding wire transfers versus sending a check and providing back info. I’d say you want to have some sort of knowledge of the institution.
Also, i will say, they havnt offered to pay for tenure evaluations, but do for evaluations of programs in the form of hourly rates.
Juliet Langman
Professor of Applied Linguistics and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, COEHD
UTSA
On Jun 26, 2019, at 14:10, Timothy Yuen <Timothy.Yuen@utsa.edu> wrote:
The university appears to legitimate, and seems to actually be one of the major universities in Malaysia. I have had some limited experience with institutions from this part of the world where they prefer to deal with wire transfers rather than credit cards. I know it sounds sketchy, but in those instances such transactions were backed by a major university and a very well-known international organization.
--
Timothy T. Yuen, PhD
Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (COEHD)
Courtesy Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science (COS)
Courtesy Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (COE)
Director, EDGE Center
The University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249
office: MB 2.210G
phone: 210.458.5047
email: timothy.yuen@utsa.edu
http://www.ist-utsa.org
From: Maricela Oliva <Maricela.Oliva@utsa.edu>
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 2:59 PM
To: Belinda Flores <Belinda.Flores@utsa.edu>
Cc: "coehd@lists.it.utsa.edu" <coehd@lists.it.utsa.edu>
Subject: [Coehd] Re: FW: Invitation As External Assessor For Universiti Putra Malaysia (Associate Professor Dr. Zulhamri Abdullah )
Getting a check back seems reasonable. But sending all of the requested info (including passport #) is an invitation for identity theft, in my view.
Maricela
From: Belinda Flores
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 1:48 PM
To: Maricela Oliva
Cc: coehd@lists.it.utsa.edu
Subject: Re: [Coehd] FW: Invitation As External Assessor For Universiti Putra Malaysia (Associate Professor Dr. Zulhamri Abdullah )
I was once compensated— forgot US university; I submitted my review and then After they sent me a check. Don’t remember providing any info.
Belinda Bustos Flores, PhD
Associate Dean of Professional Preparation, Assessment & Accreditation and Professor
Academy for Teacher Excellence Founder & PI
College of Education & Human Development
University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
MB 3.310D
San Antonio, Texas 78249
On Jun 26, 2019, at 11:34 AM, Maricela Oliva <Maricela.Oliva@utsa.edu> wrote: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:
1. 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.
2. Having conducted many such reviews, the UTSA professor emeritus agreed and sent a review of the candidate and her/his materials.
3. She subsequently received a thank you from the institution and a comment that they would provide compensation for the review.
4. Compensation is never a part of faculty assessments and review for promotion and tenure, so the professor emeritus was taken aback.
5. 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
One UTSA Circle, MB 2.438
San Antonio, TX 78249
(210) 458-5832
“…the truest eye may now belong to the migrant’s double vision.” homi k. bhabha
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