{"id":320,"date":"2017-02-05T09:33:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T14:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=320"},"modified":"2017-02-06T09:34:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:34:52","slug":"a-message-job-offer-for-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/a-message-job-offer-for-student\/","title":{"rendered":"A message (job offer for student)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-321\" style=\"border: 2px solid #ff0000;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/02\/February6JobOffer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/02\/February6JobOffer.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/02\/February6JobOffer-300x235.jpg 300w\" 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, such as the company 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>Misspelling and grammar errors are often indicators of malicious emails<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The email does reference a real company, 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\">Are you a Vassar student looking for a job? Contact the right experts who can help you at the Career Development Office <a href=\"http:\/\/careers.vassar.edu\/\">http:\/\/careers.vassar.edu\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fraudulent job offers are extremely common.\u00a0 For more information, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbb.org\/northwest-florida\/news-events\/bbb-scam-alerts\/2016\/02\/students-targets-of-recent-job-scam\/\">http:\/\/www.bbb.org\/northwest-florida\/news-events\/bbb-scam-alerts\/2016\/02\/students-targets-of-recent-job-scam\/<\/a><\/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. 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":"","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-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","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=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}