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Students fall for jobs scam

Everyone at one time or another has received spam e-mails promising high-paying jobs for part-time work at home. Unfortunately, at least three K-State students responded to such offers recently and almost became victims of fraud. The offer was simple and enticing:

Work from school/home and earn $300 weekly… each days job takes maximum of 50mins… you are not working every day, only when necessary… kindly get back to us ASAP if you care to know more about the job offer.

When the students responded, they were asked to provide their name, address, phone number, age, and gender. They then received in postal mail a check for nearly $2,000 and were instructed to cash it at their bank, keep $180 for themselves to cover “internet connectivity for the first month of your job” and send the rest to their “material supplier in Michigan.” Yeah, right. One student became suspicious before it got to this point and reported it. Two others tried to cash the bogus checks which were fortunately caught by alert Manhattan bank tellers and reported to the police.

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Reminder: IT security roundtable this Friday on recognizing e-mail scams

The roundtable will be 9-10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 4, in Union 213. This session is designed for the general user, so you do not have to be a technical wizard to benefit. If you use e-mail, this event is for you.

Malicious e-mail attachments wreaked havoc on K-State computers a few weeks ago, while spear phishing scams that steal eID passwords have been a persistent plague. As hackers continue to find new, more clever ways to trick people, it is important for all users to educate themselves about e-mail scams and be constantly on the alert for new scams that arrive daily in people’s K-State e-mail. Consequently, December’s monthly IT security roundtable discussion will provide tips to help people recognize e-mail scams and thus protect themselves from identity theft, financial fraud, compromised computers, and more.

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IT Security roundtable Dec. 4: How to recognize an e-mail scam

Malicious e-mail attachments wreaked havoc on K-State computers a few weeks ago, while spear phishing scams that steal eID passwords have been a persistent plague. As hackers continue to find new, more clever ways to trick people, it is important for all users to educate themselves about e-mail scams and be constantly on the alert for new scams that arrive in people’s K-State e-mail daily. Consequently, December’s monthly IT security roundtable discussion will provide tips to help people recognize e-mail scams and thus protect themselves from identity theft, financial fraud, compromised computers, and more.

The roundtable will be 9-10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 4, in Union 213.

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