{"id":422,"date":"2018-04-21T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T20:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=422"},"modified":"2018-04-25T10:57:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T14:57:18","slug":"a-message-personal-assistant-part-time-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/a-message-personal-assistant-part-time-position\/","title":{"rendered":"A message (personal assistant part-time position)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-423\" style=\"border: 2px solid #ff0000;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/04\/Apr21PersonalAssistant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/04\/Apr21PersonalAssistant.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/04\/Apr21PersonalAssistant-300x270.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>Unsolicited job offers directed at college students are common<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is fraud<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Grammatical errors are often indicators of malicious emails<\/li>\n<li>It is too good to be true &#8211; 4 &#8211; 8 hours of work for $250<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>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>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>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-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}