Phishing

This is a fraudulent offer for a remote assistant position. The scammer will impersonate a real UCB professor or department and try to take the conversation offline to a 'personal email' address.

Common bogus email subject lines include:

'Approved Part - Time Job ( Offer For Staffs & Students )'

'VIRTUAL PERSONAL ASSITANT JOB (REMOTE)'

'**NEW INTERNSHIP OFFER**'

'Internship Opportunities at University of California, Berkeley'

'Research Assistant Position'

What makes this a phishing message?...

This email has been specifically targeting UC Berkeley Executives and asks them to click a link and enter their credentials to review an employee termination agreement.

The sender name indicates an official Docusign like service, but is allegedly from OnlineSIGN-DOC, EDOC-ReadytoSign, or OnlineSignDESK-Ready.

When the recipient hovers a cursor over the link, it goes to an unknown third party site. If the link would be clocked, the target will be asked to login and the credentials will be stolen.

This phony potential Covid contact alert was received by many users sent to their Campus bMail accounts.

This targeted phishing scam is using a fake UC Berkeley email address

From: UC Berkeley Alerts <CHI-Information@case.edu>

This targeted phishing scam directs user to a bogus CAS authentication page..

The serious nature of the report is intended to cause alarm in recipients and lure them into clicking the link and entering their...

Every year, students at UC Berkeley are scammed out of thousands of dollars via fake employment offers. Beware of unsolicited emails, phone calls, texts or even facebook messages offering internship or employment opportunities. If you receive a job offer, don’t trust it without verifying – contact the person offering the job via their contact info in the campus directory or via a berkeley.edu departmental website....