{"id":74824,"date":"2025-05-19T13:47:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=74824"},"modified":"2025-05-19T13:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:47:59","slug":"hec-warns-public-of-scammers-fake-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/hec-warns-public-of-scammers-fake-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"HEC warns public of scammers, fake websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: To prevent any kind of personal data, the Higher Education Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/deadline-extended-for-pm-youth-laptop-scheme-check-new-date-inside\/\">(HEC)<\/a> has warned the public to be alert to scammers who use fake sites to steal <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/safer-internet-day-knowing-user-rights-can-safeguard-personal-data-from-falling-into-the-wrong-hands-kaspersky-experts\/\">personal data.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Public Alert: Scammers are impersonating HEC &amp; using fake sites to steal info. HEC never asks for OTPs, passwords, or bank details. Report suspicious activity to us,&#8221; the HEC shared on its X handle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads_between_content\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1523347432315-11\" class=\"story_ads\">HEC never calls for payment attestation and One-time Password (OTP) or any other kind of personal information.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ads_between_content\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1523347432315-11\" class=\"story_ads\">&#8220;Report suspicious calls and websites to helplines of PTA (Pakistan Telecommunication Authority) and National Response Centre for Cyber Crime,&#8221; the HEC informed in the video.<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"> Public Alert: Scammers are impersonating HEC &amp; using fake sites to steal info.<\/p>\n<p>HEC never asks for OTPs, passwords, or bank details.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Official: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l32jlev6u4\">https:\/\/t.co\/l32jlev6u4<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RmaI7Go943\">https:\/\/t.co\/RmaI7Go943<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u274c Fake: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YalwCsftKB\">https:\/\/t.co\/YalwCsftKB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Report suspicious activity to us. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wY8RrW8KFa\">pic.twitter.com\/wY8RrW8KFa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HEC Pakistan (@hecpkofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hecpkofficial\/status\/1924358609116250456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"story_ads\">The education commission also requested citizens to be aware of scam calls and fake websites. It urged citizens not to share any personal or bank details with scammers.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The HEC also mentioned that it only has one official website where all the official information is provided.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: To prevent any kind of personal data, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has warned the public to be alert to scammers who use fake sites to steal personal data. &#8220;Public Alert: Scammers are impersonating HEC &amp; using fake sites to steal info. HEC never asks for OTPs, passwords, or bank details. Report suspicious activity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,8],"tags":[28835,132,28834],"class_list":["post-74824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-technology","tag-fake-websites","tag-hec","tag-scammers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74833,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74824\/revisions\/74833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}