Students, Faculty and Staff should be wary of an email that purportedly comes from a Loyola student looking for someone to be her uncle’s part time “personal assistant” for $500.00 a week. Although there is nothing malicious in the email, if you reply to the email address in the body of the email, they will contact you and attempt to get your banking information under the guise of setting up a means to pay you. This is a modified message similar to the one posted on August 3rd for a “dog walker”. As always, users should exercise diligence and a cautious eye when getting an unsolicited email especially when it looks too good to be true.
Subject: Part time Personal assistant Needed to work from home.Pay is $500 bi weekly.
Scam.
On August 27, 2018 at 5:01:10 PM, REDACTED wrote:
Hi and how was your day? My name is REDACTED,I am a student of Loyola University Chicago.My uncle is in need of a part time personal assistant who will be working from home.Pay is $500 every two weeks.Interested applicant must have a working printer, computer with internet access.You will be working any 2 hours a day within 8am-5pm. Kindly email him for more info j_petersann@hotmail.com