Phishing Alert: Part-Time Student Administrative Assistant

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:56:37 -0400
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Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received multiple reports of job phishing emails from a Gmail account. The phishers are pretending to offer a Part-Time Student Administrative Assistant job. Below is an example of the email. For privacy purposes, we removed the To field.

From: Larry Grace <lg384399@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 4:02 PM

Subject: Part-Time Student Administrative Assistant Needed

To:

The service of a student assistant is urgently required to work part-time and get paid $315 weekly. Tasks will be carried out remotely and work time is 8 hours in a week.

If interested, send a copy of your updated resume and a functional google chat email address to our Department of Sociology via this email address to proceed further on the job roles/responsibilities.

Regards

Marina Adler

Professor of Sociology

Department Of Sociology

THIS JOB OFFER IS NOT REAL!

Positions at UMBC are advertised at https://careers.umbc.edu/handshake/. They are not dispersed to all available email addresses.

Why would email from Prof. Adler have a From address of: Larry Grace <lg384399@gmail.com>?

Why not use the phone instead of Google Chat?

Even if Prof. Adler wanted to use Google Chat,she must already have your UMBC address in Google Mail. She doesn’t need to ask for another one.

If you respond to this message, they will likely send you a check to deposit. DO NOT DEPOSIT THE CHECK! If you have shared any banking information, CONTACT YOUR BACK IMMEDIATELY!

If you have received any message similar to the one listed above, please forward it with its headers to security@umbc.edu. For instructions, visit https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970.

If you need further assistance, please contact us at security@umbc.edu.

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