{"id":1198,"date":"2026-09-06T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/fraudsters-target-students-ahead-of-maintenance-payment-season\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:00:57","slug":"fraudsters-target-students-ahead-of-maintenance-payment-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/fraudsters-target-students-ahead-of-maintenance-payment-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraudsters Target Students Ahead of Maintenance Payment Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters are targeting university students ahead of the annual September payout of \u00a32.6bn in student maintenance funds, hoping to siphon off money from already anxious new attendees.<\/p>\n<p>The scam typically involves a text message sent a few days before the first loan payment is scheduled to land in the student&#8217;s account. The message warns that someone has attempted to alter the account&#8217;s bank details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our records indicate that your bank details on your student finance account were changed on Friday 16th. If you did not do this please contact us immediately,&#8221; the fraudulent text reportedly reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scammers are sending fraudulent texts to students days before maintenance loans arrive, claiming bank details were changed to steal funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[92,679,2436,2437],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business","tag-scams","tag-student-finance","tag-uk-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}