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
If you received a UVic job posting from a UVic professor offering flexible work schedule with very high pay, and you are wondering what’s the harm in applying. Think again, because scammers are at play here. The scammers impersonate a real UVic professor to make the job offer look legitimate. Here are some of the red … Continue reading Part-Time Assistants Needed
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
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
This job scam phish has been circulating today, which spoofs another Canadian institute email. Here is how you can spot this scam: Subject doesn’t match the content of the emails. Sender name and Signature name are different. Too good to be true offer, paying way too high a wage for surveys. External gmail address is … Continue reading Dear UVIC.
Here is yet another job scam email impersonating a real UVic faculty member. This job scam uses a variety of different subject lines; other ones we’ve seen include: UVIC STUDENT JOB Part-time Student Job Administrative Assistants Needed Organizational Research The red flags to look out for are pretty much the same as the ones we’ve … Continue reading “UVIC STUDENT EMPLOYMENT” and similar job scam emails
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
With income tax filing season approaching, it’s not surprising that phishers are sending emails pretending to be from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). The “From” addresses for these emails were not ones from canada.ca or a domain ending in .gc.ca, meaning the emails did not actually come from the Government of Canada. The samples reported … Continue reading You have an outstanding refund from Canada Revenue Agency.
