Part-Time Personal Assistant/Bookkeeper
Earn $650 Weekly Working From Home
FW: UNICEF PART – TIME JOB OPPORTUNITY
This UNICEF job opportunity phishing campaign is going around again. It appears to be exactly the same verbiage, and the only reason it wasn’t marked as Spam automatically is because it came from a compromised @illinois.edu account. If your own account is sending these out, or you click the link, IT Security will reset your […]
UI: WE ARE HIRING! / UILLINOIS|WE ARE H I R I N G!!!
Another scam campaign emerged this weekend, purporting to be an official message from “Career Services” and using the WebTools MassMail design template to seem more official. No, Career Services is not offering $300/week virtual assistant. jobs. If something seems to good to be true – and if it’s telling you specifically to provide a non-university […]
Quota Limit Exceeded-New Messages will Return
Below are examples of a phishing scam email about email quotas. It is very rare that “email quota” notifications with time pressure will be legitimate. However, if you aren’t sure, rather than clicking a generic link from an email, you can sign in to your Outlook Online account at webmail.illinois.edu, click the Gear icon to […]
[Person shared] “2022staffresource” with you
Another instance of a malicious file shared through legitimate service (OneDrive, Google Drive) purporting to be from a VIP, in this case, the Dean.
Re: Employee COVID-19 Program
Be on the lookout for COVID-related “assistance” scams like this one currently going around. This is not advertising a legitimate program. Some clues are: 1) the bit.ly short URL obscuring the true destination of the support page, 2) the fact that this is being sent by a .edu address for a different institution, 3) that […]
$500/week work opportunity
Do not reply to the email address in this message. Consider it suspicious any time someone sending email from @illinois.edu asks you to reply to a Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail/AOL address. Be wary of emails with attachments, especially those with offers that seem too good to be true.