“Virtual job-Fair” Impersonation Job Scams

Mon, 10 May 2021 22:09:42 -0400
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The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has seen more similar reports of a scammer using compromised UMBC accounts and claiming to be the Online employment coordinator for career and talent management. Below is the most recent example of this scam with the names and emails removed for privacy reasons.

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

Date: Tue, May 4, 2021

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 virtual 'personal assistant' job available.Kindly send in a reply with your Resume and phone number if you are interested in a job.

The scammer is claiming to be UMBC’s online employment coordinator and is offering a part time job as a virtual “personal assistant.” Even though this email looks to be coming from a UMBC user, the reply-to within the headers are set to <careerjobsdepartment@outlook.com> which is a red-flag for phishing emails.

This campaign is similar to one DoIT has seen recently. All these campaigns use compromised UMBC accounts and the same reply-to email address <careerjobsdepartment@outlook.com>. For more information on these similar campaigns please see this article: https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?id=101502.

If you have received this or a similar scam (like the ones linked above), please do not respond or click on any URLs.