{"id":294,"date":"2016-12-11T10:09:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=294"},"modified":"2016-12-13T10:29:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T15:29:27","slug":"dear-selected-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/dear-selected-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Selected Personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-295\" style=\"border: 2px solid #ff0000;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/12\/Dec11EmploymentFraud1.jpg\" alt=\"dec11employmentfraud1\" width=\"600\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/12\/Dec11EmploymentFraud1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/12\/Dec11EmploymentFraud1-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-296\" style=\"border: 2px solid #ff0000;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/12\/Dec11EmploymentFraud2.jpg\" alt=\"dec11employmentfraud2\" width=\"600\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/12\/Dec11EmploymentFraud2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/12\/Dec11EmploymentFraud2-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The email contains information that can be validated, including the gallery and artist name<\/li>\n<li>Unsolicited job offers directed at college students are common<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is fraud<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The originating email address purports to be the IRS, yet the email address in the message is a rather generic looking AOL address<\/li>\n<li>Misspelling and grammar errors are often indicators of malicious emails<\/li>\n<li>Although the first email seems innocuous, the second one makes it clear that the recipient has to spend money up front and hints at requiring bank information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The email does reference a real person and real gallery, so an email to an address listed on the website would quickly establish whether or not this is a valid offer.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">A quick phone call would also help!<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are you a Vassar student looking for a job?\u00a0 Contact the right experts who can help you at the Career Development Office\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/careers.vassar.edu\/\">http:\/\/careers.vassar.edu\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amazingly, this exact fraud &#8211; using the same gallery website and information &#8211; has been circulating since 2011.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is known as a 419 scam, know as &#8220;advanced fee&#8221; and usually comes in the form of a lottery notification.\u00a0 If curious, please read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advance-fee_scam\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advance-fee_scam<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">A little paranoia goes a long way! Be suspicious of any email messages similar to this one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}