This is yet another job scam impersonating a UN agency, where the scammer has taken the additional step of using a reply address on a fraudulent domain that impersonates UNESCO. Here are the red flags indicating that this email is not legitimate: The offer is way too good to be true: $500 for only three … Continue reading Small Duties
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
This is another very “popular” phish today. It made effort to sound legit, it contains helpdesk@uvic.ca at the bottom and the sender may appear as an internal one to add to the sense of legitimacy. Similarly to the job scam we posted about below, this phish uses the trick to put the whole message in … Continue reading UVic Alerts
This job scam is circulating today. It contains an attachment and tries to persuade victims to reply back to some external address. The actual sender could be different. The body of the email message is not text but actually a bitmap picture. (the body is shown below). The pdf also contains the email address of … Continue reading Opening
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 is similar to what we have seen back in Feb 2023 just with different subject and sender. To know about the phishing signs, check the post below: UNICEF is recruiting students Screenshot of the latest phish:
Seems to be job scam season, this is the fourth job scam phish seen this week. Tactics are same as other job scams trying to lure people with too good to be true offers. The sender email and the email to contact are different, moreover this email pretends to be coming from WHO but the … Continue reading RE:
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
This is a job scam that lures users using big organization names such as ‘UNICEF’ in this case. The same phish has also been observed with different subjects such as ‘internship Opportunity’, ‘Paid engagement internship!’ or maybe more. Although, it is a well written and well-structured email but still the warning signs remain the same … Continue reading UNICEF is recruiting students
Staff from various departments were targeted with variations of this email, and the scammer seems to have made the effort to tailor the field of study to match the recipient’s department. This scam is likely to be a cheque overpayment scam or could be some other type of job scam. We have seen a previous … Continue reading Biology tutor [field of study will vary]
Work from home job scams are unfortunately very common right now with scammers trying to take advantage of people having financial difficulties due to the pandemic. If you receive an unsolicited email like this, do not reply with your email address, phone number or any other personal information. If you did, be extra vigilant about … Continue reading COLLEGE BOARD MESSAGE
Practically this is the same scam that we posted about last time. It was received by many UVic recipients last night. The text is the same as before, the sender is some compromised account at another organization and the subject this time is just “WPF”. Please do not be curious and do not open the … Continue reading WPF
This purported job offer uses the name of a real faculty member from the Department of Sociology, but this job offer did not come from that person or department and is a scam. There are several signs that this is not a legitimate opportunity: The sender’s name does not match the name of the faculty … Continue reading Part-Time Student Administrative Assistant Needed
