{"id":49867,"date":"2022-06-22T11:41:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T03:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=49867"},"modified":"2022-06-22T11:41:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T03:41:56","slug":"dost-sei-issues-warning-on-fake-and-suspicious-social-media-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2022\/06\/22\/dost-sei-issues-warning-on-fake-and-suspicious-social-media-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"DOST-SEI issues warning on fake and suspicious social media accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Department of Science and Technology \u2013 Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) advises its stakeholders, scholars, applicants, and the public to be wary of fake and suspicious social media groups and pages bearing the name or logo of the Institute and\/or its flagship DOST Scholarship Program.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Institute has recently come across numerous websites, and Facebook pages with misleading information about scholarship programs, including fake job offerings. Some of these social media accounts are:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>DOST Scholarship 2022 &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/677958326348485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/677958326348485<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>DOST Scholarship \u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DOST-Scholarship-100587408740184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DOST-Scholarship-100587408740184<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please be reminded that any announcement regarding DOST-SEI scholarships, and other programs can only come from the official Facebook page and the official website at the following links:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Science Education Institute \u2013 Department of Science and Technology &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DOST.SEI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DOST.SEI<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><li>DOST-SEI Website \u2013&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sei.dost.gov.ph\/index.php\/newhome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.sei.dost.gov.ph\/index.php\/newhome<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, applicants and scholars should course all applications and related concerns to the official email addresses of DOST-SEI scholarship division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEI has taken a proper course of action to combat these accounts and would like to affirm its stand against misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any suspicious social media account or website may be reported to the Institute via email or through the SEI Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute has recently come across numerous websites, and Facebook pages with misleading information about scholarship programs, including fake job offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":49424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6753,508,764,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-49867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-dost-sei","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-security","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}