Job scams that pretend to be from the Red Cross seem to becoming more common. As with many other job scams that we’ve seen before, the scammer tempts people with a generous salary for a minimal amount of work. If a job offer arrives unsolicited and the compensation is too good to be true, you … Continue reading Remote Flexible Job
Job scammers are once again trying to take advantage of students who are in need of money to pay for tuition and necessities in these tough economic times. As in previous batches that we have seen and written about, the scammers impersonate a real UVic professor to make the job offer look legitimate. The red … Continue reading Remote Job Opening
Today we received another variant of the Red Cross job scam phish. It uses the tactic of too good to be true offer to lure users. The sender email address is not official Red Cross email, signature used is vague and does not represent an official authority, asks users to reply from their personal email … Continue reading Red Cross Part-Time Job
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
Yet another job scam impersonating yet another organization, it is American Red Cross this time. As we have seen with other job scams, this one also offers too good to be true salary for working very few hours. Other indicators of this being a job scam are: Sender address is not coming from an official … Continue reading Flexible Part-Time Job
This job scam phish was circulated over the weekend with all the hints of being a fraudulent job offer. This email does not mention which company they are representing. The text gives a very generic and vague information about the job. Generic salutation, and signature are without any mention of who this person is. Also, … Continue reading Job Offer
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
