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”
Job scam impersonating UVic professor to make the job employment look legit. There are other similar emails circulating with different subject and different senders. We have been continuously seeing these types of scams this summer. Please pay attention to the phishing signs before taking action on such emails. Here are some easy to spot phish … Continue reading Job Opening
If you get an unsolicited email with an attachment and you don’t recognize the sender, be extremely wary, especially if the message is very vague and only tells you to open the attachment. The vagueness is a ploy to try and get you to open the attachment out of curiosity. Don’t open such attachments! Many contain … Continue reading Job Title
This phish has no hidden agenda, plain and simple job scam. The phisher has clearly put no effort, whatsoever, into making it look legit. There is no mention of who this person is and what organization they work for, not even their last name. Salutation is generic and formatting of the text is weird along … Continue reading Job Offer or Job Offered
This is another popular phish today. The subject may vary – “Vacancy”, “Job Vacancy” etc, and the sender can be another UVic address or the recipient’s address. This is a typical job scam. What they rely is the “Reply-to” address, that’s the address were your reply goes and in this case it is an address … Continue reading Job Vacancy
Once again, scammers are sending out fake job offers that are impersonating real UVic faculty. These emails are similar to four previous batches we saw on May 8, 12, 16 and 19. Nevertheless, it’s worth doing a refresher on the red flags to look out for: The emails are coming from Gmail addresses. A legitimate … Continue reading Part-Time Job Needed
Today’s batch of job scam emails is very similar to the ones we wrote about on May 8 and May 12. Like the previous rounds, the scam uses the name of a real professor from the UVic Department of Computer Science to make the offer seem legitimate. As a refresher, here are the red flags in … Continue reading Part-time Job Opening
Please be aware of this phish as it impersonates a UVic faculty member to make the job offer believable. The sender’s email address is not a UVic email and the sender’s name is made to look legit “Office of Human Resources” but it is fake. The scammer is asking for a gmail address, which is … Continue reading Part-Time Job Opening
This phish was received over the weekend but there are others received over the weekend as well as received this morning from related threat actor with different senders with these subject lines ‘Re: Covid Funds Relief’ or ‘Re: College $1000 benefit check available’ or ‘Re: NOV COLLEGE GRANT/FUNDS APPROVED FOR PAYMENT 2022’ or ‘Re: COLLEGE … Continue reading Re: Student Job Available Immediately
Other variations of the subject line have also been seen. This is a job scam email that is impersonating UVic, specifically the Department of History. There are several red flags that indicate that this offer is not legitimate: The sender is not from UVic–it’s a Gmail address. Unsolicited job offers from free email providers should … Continue reading New REMOTE POST Available / New PART-TIME POST (Remote) Available / New Remote Job Paying $400 WEEKLY!
Another fake UNICEF part-time job email spotted at UVic. This scam email is constructed to look like that a UVic office is informing about this opportunity. The phishers use such tactics to increase the legitimacy of the email. But if you look closely, the signature “Academy Career Opportunity” is a fake office and the sender … Continue reading Job Opportunity
This job scam is similar to several previous UN-themed job scams from the past few weeks, but the latest batch is particularly concerning because the messages were sent from compromised UVic email addresses. Phishers and scammers love to send these sorts of emails from compromised accounts to make them look more legitimate, so if an … Continue reading “Job Offer” or “Job Opportunity”
Once again, there is a job scam email circulating that is impersonating a UN organization, specifically the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). It is quite similar to a fake UNESCO job offer email that we saw a few weeks ago. Note that the sender is not someone from unido.org; this is a sign that … Continue reading Paid UNIDO Part-Time Job
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 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..
