Like we’ve seen many times before, job scammers are impersonating real UVic professors or staff and targeting students looking for extra income to help pay for essentials when the cost of living remains so high. This latest batch is more elaborately written than many of the previous ones we’ve seen and may have been composed … Continue reading Research Assistant Position
Job scams are on the rise and UVic keeps getting newer and newer campaigns of such scams. There has already been a lot of posts in the past about spotting job scams. Here are a few that can be checked out: https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/phishbowl/2024/03/14/your-invitation-to-participate/ https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/phishbowl/2024/01/10/work-study-opportunity/ https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/phishbowl/2024/01/29/stmicroelectronics-ltd-looking-for-representative-in-your-area/ Subject: Research Opportunity Available Sender: Prof. Cl**** Ca**** <****@gmail.com> Notice: … Continue reading Research Opportunity Available
Job scam impersonating UVic professor to make the job employment look legit. We have been continuously seeing these types of scams, please pay attention to the phishing signs before taking any action. Here are some easy to spot phish signs: External email address, which wouldn’t be the case if it was coming from UVic office. … Continue reading Job Opening or Research Assistance
Job scammers are once again impersonating real UVic professors when they offer fake research job positions. The red flags that indicate this offer is not legitimate are the usual ones: The emails come from Gmail addresses. A legitimate UVic job offer should be announced from a UVic email address. The salary offered is too good … Continue reading “Research Assistants Needed” or “Job Opening For Research”
This is a typical job scam that we have been seeing since past month impersonating a faculty member. Following are the red flags: External sender address as opposed to UVic address. Sender’s name doesn’t match the faculty member impersonated. The salary offered is too good to be true. Contact number is given by the scammer … Continue reading Student Research Position
Today we have seen another batch of job scams similar to previously seen job scams this week. This one also uses the name of a real professor from the UVic Department of Computer Science to make the offer seem legitimate. To spot the red flags, please check out these previous posts: May 16: Part-time Job … Continue reading Part – Time Student Researcher Position
Another job scam impersonating a UVic faculty member to make the job offer look legitimate. Following are the red flags: The sender address name doesn’t match with the Faculty name given in the signature. The email address is a gmail address not a UVic address. The email asks you to contact via text message, which … Continue reading Organizational Research Assistant – University of Victoria
We’ve been seeing several variations of these fake research assistant job offers, each one impersonating a real UVic faculty member to make the opportunity look legitimate. However, there are several red flags that indicate these are scams: The emails come from Gmail addresses, not from the faculty members’ UVic email addresses. The scammer asks you … Continue reading “Student Research Assistant Urgently Needed” or “Office of Research Assistants” job scam emails
Recently, there has been an increase in job scam phishes. This one also impersonates a professor at UVic to make the job seem legit. This phish is similar to the one encountered earlier this month. To spot the phishing signs checkout the post below: Student Research Assistant Urgently Needed
This job scam phish was received over the weekend, observed various subjects such as “APPLY FOR A RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION”, “Job Opportunity At UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA”, “STUDENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES”, “APPLY FOR A RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION”, “UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA Student Employment Openings”, “Research Assistants Needed At UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA”. Phishing signs: Impersonates a Professor from a … Continue reading APPLY FOR A RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION
This is a job scam phish. These type of phishes usually try to trick students by giving “too good to be true” offer. This phish impersonates a professor in a UVic department but looking at the email address confirms that this is an external address which wouldn’t be a case if coming from a UVic … Continue reading Student Research Assistant Urgently Needed
With students back on campus, these kinds of scams will continue to target them. Most of the emails with the subject “Students seeking Jobs should check below” were properly identified by the antispam filters and ended up in the junk folders of Exchange mailboxes. These emails typically contain a short text in the body of … Continue reading Students seeking Jobs should check below
Job scammers are continuing to try to take advantage of students looking for extra cash to help pay for tuition, housing and other essentials in these times when the cost of living is so high. Below is yet another job scam that impersonates a real UVic professor. For more information on job scams and how … Continue reading #Your Invitation to participate..
Scammers routinely attempt to target students with job scams, taking advantage of those trying to make ends meet or pay tuition and rent with a seemingly-attractive job offer. In reality, the victim is asked to deposit a fake cheque and immediately send an e-transfer from their personal banking account. Given the cheque is fake, the … Continue reading A view into a fake job scam
Yet another job scam is circulating today. As always, impersonating a real UVic professor to make the job offer look legitimate. Here are some of the red flags: The email comes from a Gmail address. Emails about real UVic job offers should come from a UVic email address. The salary offered is too good to … Continue reading Work-Study Opportunity
