“UMBC Student Employment” Impersonation Job Scam

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:11:22 -0400
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The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) received reports of a scammer trying to impersonate Dr. William Blake. This job scam is claiming to offer a remote part-time job at UMBC to students. Below is an example of this job scam email.

From: William Blake <(IMPERSONATED)@umbc.edu>

Date: Thu, Apr 8, 2021

Subject: UMBC Student Employment

To:

University of Maryland, Baltimore County is seeking

a Research Administrative Assistant /services of a

competent Political Science Student,

Administrative Assistant to work Part-time and get paid

$350 weekly. Tasks will be carried out remotely. If interested,

Do text your name to (443) 437-4263 so as to proceed

Best Regards,

Dr William Blake

Assistant Professor

Political Science

Public Policy, Room 312

(443) 437-4263

The scam message above is claiming to offer a remote part-time job as a research administrative assistant. Even though the message looks to be coming from a UMBC account, please note the email headers show that the message has a return path and X-sender of <charlie@dynatronecom.com>.

In addition the scammer is asking students who are interested to text their name to the provided number which leaves no record of communication in UMBC systems. If you receive this or any similar email, please do not respond by text or email.