Date and Time First Identified
Phishing Method
- Social engineering email enticing users to send personal information for part-time administrative assistant job
- Likely to be taken offline to text messaging
- The emails list actual Dartmouth professors as the senders
User Response
- Do NOT reply to email
- Do NOT open any attachments
- Forward email to phishing@dartmouth.edu
- Delete email and empty trash
Sample Unformatted Email
There are a couple of different emails that have been sent out with similar content promising admin assistant roles:
Subject: Administrative Assistant II (TEMP)
Hello student,
Working on campus provides students with an opportunity to earn an income to help defray educational costs as well as build the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in their career. Student employees also have the opportunity to form stronger connections with their respective coordinators, a connection that has been proven to increase the acqusition of academic knowledge. On-campus job postings and applications are hosted and managed by the Campus Job Board.
You have been selected for a student's part-time job which gives you the opportunity to earn $350 per week. Kindly submit your full name in a text message to the number below for more information.
Professor John Voight
Phone Number Redacted
Regards
Subject: ADMIN RESEARCH ASST I (Student/Remote Understudy)
You have been chosen to work remotely as an understudy assistant
to professor James C. Leiter on a part-time basis. For more
information, text your full name to the phone number listed in
the attached paper.
James C. Leiter
Address Redacted