{"id":86653,"date":"2023-06-26T13:31:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=86653"},"modified":"2023-06-26T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:00:54","slug":"job-scam-emails-on-the-rise-warns-brock-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/06\/job-scam-emails-on-the-rise-warns-brock-its\/","title":{"rendered":"Job scam emails on the rise, warns Brock ITS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Information Technology Services (ITS) team cautions users to be wary of emails offering employment opportunities that look too good to be true.<\/p>\n<p>While they can look like they come from trusted companies, job scam emails are really a way for scammers to gain access to users\u2019 personal information.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Brock community can protect themselves by learning how to differentiate between legitimate opportunities and job scam emails.<\/p>\n<p>Signs of a job scam email include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The opportunity seems too good to be true, offering unlimited earning potential.<\/li>\n<li>The message seems urgent and pushes the recipient to accept the offer immediately.<\/li>\n<li>The job post or email has obvious grammatical or spelling errors.<\/li>\n<li>The sender doesn\u2019t verify work experience or ask for references before making a job offer.<\/li>\n<li>The sender uses Gmail or other popular public email providers rather than an official organization domain.<\/li>\n<li>The job description is unusually vague.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brock ITS advises users to research the organizations and individuals who contact them and to go directly to an organization\u2019s website to confirm a job is posted there.<\/p>\n<p>Brock users are invited to contact ITS with questions and can forward suspicious emails to <a href=\"mailto:itsecurity@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">itsecurity@brocku.ca<\/a> for further investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Information Technology Services (ITS) team cautions users to be wary of emails offering employment opportunities that look too good to be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7],"tags":[5331,5766,9785,7822,8159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86665,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86653\/revisions\/86665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}