{"id":1627,"date":"2023-07-19T10:20:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2023-07-19T10:20:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:20:51","slug":"job-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2023\/07\/19\/job-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you get an unsolicited email with an attachment and you don&#8217;t recognize the sender, be extremely wary, especially if the message is very vague and only tells you to open the attachment. The vagueness is a ploy to try and get you to open the attachment out of curiosity. <strong>Don&#8217;t open such attachments!\u00a0<\/strong>Many contain malware to infect your computer, and even ones that don&#8217;t are likely to either load a phishing site or contain a scam.<\/p>\n<p>InfoSec staff use specialized tools to examine the contents in a secure manner. When we examined the attachment for this phishing email, it turned out to contain a job scam pretending to be someone from the World Health Organization.\u00a0To quickly recap, here are the red flags that can help you identify the offer as a scam:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pay is too good to be true&#8211;this one offered $500\/week for only a few hours a week of simple tasks.<\/li>\n<li>The sender does not match the name of the person supposedly offering the job.<\/li>\n<li>You do not need to go through an interview or meet your supposed employer (either virtually or in person) before getting the job.<\/li>\n<li>The email asks you to reply and\/or provide contact information for a different communication method such as personal email, SMS or Google Chat. This is a common trick that scammers use to move the conversation to a place that cannot be monitored by UVic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?s=job+scam\">many other posts on job scams<\/a> that are worth a read if you want to learn more about how to spot them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1628\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2023\/07\/2023-07-19-remote-job-details.png\" alt=\"Scam email with a vague message asking you to open a suspicious attachment called &quot;Remote Job Details.docx&quot;\" width=\"779\" height=\"370\" aria-describedby=\"phish_transcript\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2023\/07\/2023-07-19-remote-job-details.png 779w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2023\/07\/2023-07-19-remote-job-details-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2023\/07\/2023-07-19-remote-job-details-768x365.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote id=\"phish_transcript\"><p>Subject: Job Title<br \/>\nFrom: M******** Arrizki &lt;m******arrizki@iconpln.co.id&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Attachment: [Word document icon] Remote Job Details.docx\u00a0 \u00a0 23 KB<\/p>\n<p>VIEW ATTACHED FILE FOR DETAILS<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><small>This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. PT. Indonesia Comnets Plus (ICON+) is neither liable for the proper and complete transmition of the information contained in this communication nor for any delay and its receipt.<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you get an unsolicited email with an attachment and you don&#8217;t recognize the sender, be extremely wary, especially if the message is very vague and only tells you to open the attachment. The vagueness is a ploy to try and get you to open the attachment out of curiosity. Don&#8217;t open such attachments!\u00a0Many contain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2023\/07\/19\/job-title\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Job Title<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","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\/1627","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\/8719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}