“Hiring for Research Assistants” Job Scam

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:54:45 -0400
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The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is receiving reports of a job scam claiming to offer a remote position as a research assistant for the Information Technology Center. Below is an example of this scam where the scammer is impersonating a Professor Fei Cheng.

From: Prof Fei Cheng <nengenengab@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021

Subject: Hiring for Research Assistants

To:

The Information Technology Center is currently hiring students to work

remotely as Research assistants and get paid $300 weekly.

To proceed with the application process submit your full name, functional

phone number and major via this email address or text the Center director

(747) 255-2483.

sincerely

Prof Willard E Fee Jr

Professor II in the School of Medicine, Emeritus

The message above is being sent from a Gmail account <nengenengab@gmail.com> and not a UMBC account. The email is claiming to offer a job as a research assistant. The email is asking recipients to respond either by email or text with their personal information, for example their full name, cell phone number and major. If you receive this or any similar email, please do not respond.

Also, please note that UMBC has no organization called the “Information Technology Center”, nor a Professor Fei Cheng, nor a medical school.