{"id":89532,"date":"2023-11-29T10:18:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=89532"},"modified":"2023-11-29T17:28:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T22:28:27","slug":"brock-its-raising-awareness-of-increased-job-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/11\/brock-its-raising-awareness-of-increased-job-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock ITS raising awareness of increased job scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Information Technology Services (ITS) team is alerting all faculty and staff of increased job scam emails targeting the University.<\/p>\n<p>Job scam emails are fake job opportunities sent out by scammers. While they can look like they come from trusted companies or individuals, these emails are 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 email may contain malicious links or attachments.<\/li>\n<li>The sender uses Gmail or other popular public email providers rather than an official organization domain.<\/li>\n<li>The sender may ask to be contacted via text.<\/li>\n<li>The job description is unusually vague.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_89533\" style=\"width: 1060px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Job-scam-new.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89533\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-89533 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Job-scam-new-1050x392.png\" alt=\"Screen capture of an email.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent sample of a job scam targeting Brock University.<\/p><\/div>\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>For any questions about job scams or to report a job scam email, please email <a href=\"mailto:itsecurity@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">itsecurity@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Information Technology Services (ITS) is alerting all faculty and staff of increased job scam emails targeting the University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7],"tags":[7822,180,134,737],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89532"}],"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=89532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89537,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89532\/revisions\/89537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}