“Job Opening” Administrative Assistant Job Scam

Tue, 04 May 2021 11:05:37 -0400
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The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has seen reports of a scammer claiming to offer students a position as an administrative assistant. The scammer is also claiming to be both Jose Burgos and Professor Phyllis Robinson. Below is an example of this scam with the subject “Job Opening.”

From: Jose Burgos <briggenjoserburgos@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 5:08 PM

Subject: Job Opening

To:

The services of a student administrative assistant is urgently required to work part-time and get paid $300 weekly. Tasks will be carried out remotely and work time is 7hrs/week.

If interested, send a copy of your updated resume and a functional whatsapp number to our Department of Biological Sciences via this email address to proceed.

Sincerely

Phyllis Robinson

Professor

Department of Biological Sciences

Biological Sciences Bldg, Room 470

The message above was sent from a Gmail account <briggenjoserburgos@gmail.com> and not any official UMBC account. The email is claiming to offer a job as an administrative assistant and is asking students who are interested to reply with a functional whatsapp number and their resume.

According to reports, the scammer is using an official looking profile picture on Whatsapp and the phone number <1-903-500-6544>. The reason the scammer is asking students to use Whatsapp is that it leaves no record of the communication in UMBC systems. If you have received this or a similar email, please do not respond.