For current students and Matrics, the festive season is a time to prepare for their studies in the new year. This includes registering with a higher education institution or college, securing accommodation and transport, sourcing textbooks etc. Unfortunately, the student journey specifically has over the past few years become a lucrative new source of potential victims for scammers, which is why young people need to be especially alert. The scammers who target students often do so by pretending to be universities or places of authority.   Common student-targeted scams include fake scholarships, phishing scams, grants, or admission fees.

Adrian Garden, Acting Dean of Academics at The Independent Institute of Education’s Rosebank College explains more