{"id":1445,"date":"2023-03-20T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2023-03-20T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T17:30:14","slug":"apply-for-a-research-assistant-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2023\/03\/20\/apply-for-a-research-assistant-position\/","title":{"rendered":"APPLY FOR A RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION"},"content":{"rendered":"

This job scam phish was received over the weekend, observed various subjects such as “APPLY FOR A RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION”,\u00a0 “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”.<\/p>\n

Phishing signs:<\/p>\n

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  1. Impersonates a Professor from a UVic department. Sender name is different from the impersonated professor.<\/li>\n
  2. Sender email address is external.<\/li>\n
  3. Too good to be true offer.<\/li>\n
  4. Asking to contact via phone, to evade UVic detection.<\/li>\n
  5. Formatting and grammatical errors.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Never be in hurry to respond, take your time to look for phishing signs and if in doubt consult with helpdesk.<\/p>\n

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    This job scam phish was received over the weekend, observed various subjects such as “APPLY FOR A RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION”,\u00a0 “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<\/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-1445","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\/1445","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=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}