{"id":1859,"date":"2024-01-03T13:38:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T21:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2024-01-03T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T21:38:12","slug":"tremendous-growth-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2024\/01\/03\/tremendous-growth-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Tremendous Growth Opportunity!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a job offer comes your way claiming to be too good to be true, it probably is. This job scam offers too good a salary for number of hours required for the job. Email doesn&#8217;t even mention the name of the post or the organization offering the job. The job description is too vague.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the phish is being sent from an internal address doesn\u2019t necessarily means it is trustworthy, one still needs to pay attention to the phishing signs as the sender address could be spoofed.<\/p>\n<p>Always think and look for red flags in an email before taking any action. Whenever in doubt contact helpdesk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1861 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2024\/01\/Tremendous-Growth-Opportunity-1.png\" alt=\"Job scam phish with subject &quot;Tremendous Growth Opportunity!!!&quot;, that also has phishing link to steal the credentials. \" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2024\/01\/Tremendous-Growth-Opportunity-1.png 800w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2024\/01\/Tremendous-Growth-Opportunity-1-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2024\/01\/Tremendous-Growth-Opportunity-1-768x579.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Subject: Tremendous Growth Opportunity!!!<br \/>\nSender: [redacted sender name]<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a candidate who is detail-oriented and capable of managing flexible tasks at any given time. To help deliver essential products and services to Students and educational workers with disabilities, frustrated with ignorance and lack of moral and other services, receiving, and purchasing Items for foster home, donating to foster home every month etc.<\/p>\n<p>Job Offer Details:<br \/>\nThis position will be home-based and flexible part time job, You can be working from home, School or any location, but you are required to cover a maximum 7hrs\/week.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nEmployment Type: Part-Time Personal Assistant<br \/>\nLocation: Remote Base<br \/>\nHours: 7hrs per week<br \/>\nWeekly Payment: $350<\/p>\n<p>Copy and paste the URL Below into the address bar of your web browser for more details<\/p>\n<p>[redacted phish link]<\/p>\n<p>Thank You.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a job offer comes your way claiming to be too good to be true, it probably is. This job scam offers too good a salary for number of hours required for the job. Email doesn&#8217;t even mention the name of the post or the organization offering the job. The job description is too vague. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2024\/01\/03\/tremendous-growth-opportunity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tremendous Growth Opportunity!!!<\/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-1859","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\/1859","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=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}