{"id":1822,"date":"2023-11-29T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2023-11-29T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:42:11","slug":"remote-flexible-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2023\/11\/29\/remote-flexible-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Flexible Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Job scams that pretend to be from the Red Cross seem to becoming more common. As with many other job scams that we&#8217;ve seen before, the scammer tempts people with a generous salary for a minimal amount of work. If a job offer arrives unsolicited and the compensation is too good to be true, you can be sure it&#8217;s a scam.<\/p>\n<p>Other red flags that indicate that the offer is fake:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The email was sent from an address that does not belong to the Red Cross. A legitimate email from the Canadian Red Cross would come from a redcross.ca email address.<\/li>\n<li>The message contains multiple grammatical errors.<\/li>\n<li>You are asked to reply from your personal email&#8211;this is a trick to move the conversation off UVic email to evade detection.<\/li>\n<li>Replies are to be sent to a different address from a Red Cross lookalike domain.<\/li>\n<li>The confidentiality notice is not from the Red Cross.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you replied to this email, cease contact with the scammer and reach out to the Computer Help Desk immediately for assistance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1823\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2023\/11\/2023-11-29-red-cross-job-scam.png\" alt=\"Job scam email that pretends to be from the Red Cross\" width=\"595\" height=\"440\" aria-describedby=\"phish_transcript\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2023\/11\/2023-11-29-red-cross-job-scam.png 595w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2023\/11\/2023-11-29-red-cross-job-scam-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote id=\"phish_transcript\"><p>Subject: Remote Flexible Job<br \/>\nFrom: [redacted] &lt;********@iconpln.co.id&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Distribution Assistant is vacant at the National Red Cross with a weekly pay of $500. 3 hrs. per day, 3 times a week is required for purchasing of online items and delivering them to foster\/disable homes in your local community. To apply, send cv\/application to Mammen at jobs@arc-******.com with your personal email.<\/p>\n<p>NRC<\/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>Job scams that pretend to be from the Red Cross seem to becoming more common. As with many other job scams that we&#8217;ve seen before, the scammer tempts people with a generous salary for a minimal amount of work. If a job offer arrives unsolicited and the compensation is too good to be true, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2023\/11\/29\/remote-flexible-job\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remote Flexible Job<\/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-1822","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\/1822","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=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}