{"id":510,"date":"2019-02-26T10:13:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T15:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=510"},"modified":"2019-02-26T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T15:13:40","slug":"a-message-refinery29-job-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/a-message-refinery29-job-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"A message (Refinery29 job offer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-511\" style=\"border: 2px solid #ff0000;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2019\/02\/Feb26Refinery29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2019\/02\/Feb26Refinery29.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2019\/02\/Feb26Refinery29-300x200.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<li>Refinery29 is a real media company, and it is likely they regularly hire freelance writers<\/li>\n<li>The sender&#8217;s last name is the same as the founder and CEO<\/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; $300 a week without any impact on school work<\/li>\n<li>The originating email address does not come from the company address<\/li>\n<li>A quick search on Google and LinkedIn shows there is such person as Oliver von Borries &#8211;\u00a0 any individual recruiting for legitimate work will have a LinkedIn profile or detailed information on the company website<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We are almost halfway through the spring semester!\u00a0 This means the frequency of these fraudulent employment offers will increase.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is an example from last year:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/2018\/05\/07\/a-message-personal-assistant-at-dres\/\">http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/2018\/05\/07\/a-message-personal-assistant-at-dres\/<\/a><\/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. 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\">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-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","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=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}