{"id":337,"date":"2017-04-27T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=337"},"modified":"2017-04-27T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:45:00","slug":"ushering-job-the-frances-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/ushering-job-the-frances-center\/","title":{"rendered":"$Ushering Job$ The Frances Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-338\" style=\"border: 2px solid #ff0000;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/04\/April27Ushering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/04\/April27Ushering.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2017\/04\/April27Ushering-300x145.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 comes from a Vassar College email address<\/li>\n<li>The email appears to be regarding an on-campus event<\/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>Solicitations for paid jobs on campus are not normally sent via email<\/li>\n<li>The email lacks any personal greeting or indication that the sender is valid Vassar employee<\/li>\n<li>When replying, an alternate email address outside of Vassar comes up, indicating that the actual source is a gmail address off campus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\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. 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\">Trust but verify!\u00a0 A quick call to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center would confirm or deny the veracity of this email.<\/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-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","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=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}