Virtual Job Scams

Tue, 04 May 2021 18:36:56 -0400
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The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has seen reports of a scammer using compromised UMBC email accounts to send job scams. Below are examples of these scams with the names and email addresses removed for privacy reasons.

From: (compromised user) <(compromised)@umbc.edu>

Date: Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:37 AM

Subject: virtual Work-Study

To:

Good morning, my name is Brianna . I am currently the Online employment coordinator for Career & Talent Management which offers Virtual Career Fair for undergraduates and graduates. So if you are interested in an online/ part-time job kindly send in an instant reply so you can receive further information.

From: (compromised user) <(compromised)@umbc.edu>

Date: Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 7:54 PM

Subject: Virtual job-Fair

To:

Hello, my name is Ben . I am currently the Online employment coordinator for Career & Talent Management which offers Virtual Career Fair for undergraduates and graduates There is a Part time job at Intuit Payroll Inc.Kindly send in an instant reply with your Resume and phone number if you are interested in the job.

In these similar campaigns the scammer is using compromised UMBC accounts to impersonate UMBC members. The scammers are claiming to be the online employment coordinator for Career & Talent Management and asking for users to reply if interested.

Even though the emails look to be coming from UMBC accounts the reply-to in the headers are set to <careerjobsdepartment@outlook.com>.

The scammer has used different subject lines as well, so far DoIT has seen “virtual assistant offer!”, “Virtual job-Fair” and “virtual Work-Study” for this campaign. If you have received this or a similar email, please do not respond or click on any URLs.