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Next: What can colleges do to prevent fraudulent ? |
Over the past eighteen months, colleges have reported an increase in fraudulent applications - or spam - coming in through CCCApply. Several colleges have reported as many as 10,000 or more being submitted in a single day. This activity of submitting an application for any purpose other than applying for admission to a California Community College is unauthorized use of a system to process or store data.
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In addition to being a security risk, spam applications can waste valuable business resources and server space storing and managing them until they are deleted. Along with spam email, surveys, and/or any other unsolicited digital attempt to enter our system, cyber criminals could be using these admission applications to convince end-users (colleges, staff) to reveal sensitive information about themselves or internal computer systems. When a college sends an email to a spammer asking for other information - may allow an attacker targeting our colleges to gain valuable intelligence prior to launching another type of attack. What's next? Ways to prevent spam at your college.
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