With the beginning of the Fall semester, Clemson students are being targeted again with a phishing email offering a fake job. The current scheme pretends to be from the Office of Sponsored Programs. And it offers a phony Research Position with a weekly pay of $350.
Here are the indicators that this is not a legitimate email:
- The sender’s email address is not a “Clemson.edu” address. And they even ask you to respond to a different external Gmail email address.
- Clemson Faculty will not typically reach out to our students with internship or job offers in this manner.
- The email has a sense of urgency stating that there are limited slots for this position. They are actually hoping that you won’t be thinking clearly, if you are in a rush.
- Plus they are prompting you to give them personal information, which they could use in a later attack. And they are wanting you to use an alternate personal email so that Clemson can’t block it.
If you receive an email such as the one above, please report it to the Clemson Security Operations Center by forwarding the email to phishing@clemson.edu or by using the Report Phishing button in Outlook.
