{"id":1442,"date":"2023-03-17T09:44:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2023-03-17T09:44:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T16:44:05","slug":"student-research-assistant-urgently-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2023\/03\/17\/student-research-assistant-urgently-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Research Assistant Urgently Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a job scam phish. These type of phishes usually try to trick students by giving &#8220;too good to be true&#8221; 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&#8217;t be a case if coming from a UVic employee in their professional capacity. The scammer is asking for a gmail address, which is a red flag, to evade UVic detection.<\/p>\n<p>Never be in a hurry to respond, take your time to look for phishing signs and if in doubt consult with helpdesk.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1443\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2023\/03\/Student-Research-Assistant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"789\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2023\/03\/Student-Research-Assistant.jpg 789w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2023\/03\/Student-Research-Assistant-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2023\/03\/Student-Research-Assistant-768x517.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a job scam phish. These type of phishes usually try to trick students by giving &#8220;too good to be true&#8221; 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&#8217;t be a case if coming from a UVic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2023\/03\/17\/student-research-assistant-urgently-needed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Student Research Assistant Urgently Needed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}