“Job Opening” Administrative Assistant Job Scam
Biological Sciences is NOT hiring adminstrative assistants
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.
What to do now?
If you do receive this or a similar scam, please DO NOT respond any further or click on any URLs. If you have provided any banking or financial information, please notify your bank or financial institution immediately. If you have been sent a check, you should not attempt to cash or deposit it. If you have deposited a check already, please contact your bank and tell them that it may be part of a scam.
Whether you responded to the scam or not, please forward the message (with the email headers) to security@umbc.edu. We will also keep track of any other information you submit about the scammers, such as their phone numbers. If you were sent a check or other materials, please send pictures of it and the envelope they came in.
How do I forward full email headers?
https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970
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Posted: May 4, 2021, 11:05 AM