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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..

Job scams have become common these days, trying to attract victims looking for part-time jobs to support themselves, especially in today’s tough financial times. Scammers take advantage of prospective candidates/victims by offering higher than expected pay for the amount of work required. If an offer is too good to be true, then probably it is. … Continue reading STMicroelectronics Ltd Looking for representative in your area

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 a job offer comes your way claiming to be too good to be true, it probably is. This job scam offers too good a salary for number of hours required for the job. Email doesn’t even mention the name of the post or the organization offering the job. The job description is too vague. … Continue reading Tremendous Growth Opportunity!!!

In these days when the cost of living is so high, the prospect of getting generous pay for part-time work would be appealing, but scammers are well aware of that and trying to take advantage. The following job scam claims to offer an opportunity with the UN World Food Programme, but in reality the email … Continue reading Don’t sleep on this!

If you received an email for a job position offering too good to be true salary, then either report or delete it as it is a job scam. Other signs indicating that it is a phish: Asking to reply on a different email address than the sender email address.  Asking recipient’s reply from their personal … Continue reading WFH

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

Another run of American red cross job scam with a different subject and sender, nevertheless same agenda, to scam users. Please review the post below on how to spot phishing signs in such scams. Flexible Part-Time Job Subject: Part-Time Red Cross Sender: Ratih Fidiawati <****@iconpln.co.id> Notice: This message was sent from outside the University of … Continue reading Part-Time Red Cross

Even if an email came from within UVic, you should still examine it to evaluate whether it’s actually legitimate before you click on any links or attachments. In this case, a job scammer used a compromised UVic account to send out the fraudulent job offer below. The email includes the following indicators that the offer … Continue reading 09/04/2023

A job scam phish trying to lure users with a lucrative pay offer. There is not much mentioned in the email body itself rather asks for users to open the pdf attachment for details. There is no reason for anyone to open the attachment as it has clear signs of phishing. Email body doesn’t give … Continue reading $500 Weekly Pay

Please be aware of this job scam which tries to lure users with too good to be true offer. Although, it is well written but one can still spot the phishing signs, sender name and signature name doesn’t match. The email mentions about a college website where ours is a University, clearly this email was … Continue reading A Little Request

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.

Similar to cases we saw in May and June, job scammers are impersonating real UVic professors to make their fake offers look more legitimate. The red flags remain the same as before: The emails are coming from Gmail addresses. A legitimate opportunity should be coming from a UVic email address. The sender name does not … Continue reading Work Part-Time

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