ALERT- THIS is a SCAM

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:15:19 -0400

The Career Center works very hard to ensure that job postings in UMBCworks are legitimate positions, however, scammers are becoming more and more creative, especially in these difficult economic times. A recent scam that has been brought to our attention may be reviewed below.

Email Scam

You have been offered a Spring 2021 Internship opportunity at the convenience of your home or, Which serve as a gateway to pay all expenses incurred during this pandemic. This opportunity should be done at leisure taking at most 1hr/day, 2-3 times a week.

Please send your resume to;

Email: bartonm078@gmail.com for the job description.

Career Services

UMBC.

Here are some things we would like to point in regards to the fraudulent job offer above:

1. Look at the email domain of the person requesting your resume: (bartonm78@gmail.com). Be CAUTIOUS if the domain does not match the domain of a reputable company.

2. BE CAUTIOUS of an employer whose posting includes grammatical errors or does not seem to be written professionally. Valid employers will not do this.

3. The scammer asks the candidate to “email their resume in order to receive a full job description” to proceed. BE CAUTIOUS of an employer who asks for anything out of the ordinary or who is not operating by normal hiring procedures, such as sending personal information or hiring you without interviewing you.

If you have received a scam or fraudulent email:

DoIT Security Team investigates any email scam that we send to them, however, the original emailmust be sent from the recipient of the email scam. In order to assist the DoIT Security Team's investigation, recipients of the email should send security@umbc.edu a notification including the full header set of the message. These headers are not normally displayed but can be easily accessed. For more instruction on how to send the full header set of the message, please refer to: https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970

More information on scams and attacks on the website may be found here: https://itsecurity.umbc.edu

The Career Center is here to support you. If you encounter a position that you fear may be fraudulent, don’t hesitate to reach out to us careers@umbc.edu

Please see the attachment for more information on fraudulent jobs and phishing scams.