Another email job scam, and how to celebrate International Women in Cyber Day.
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, August 31st, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
Another victim of an email job offer scam has stepped forward. At the beginning of the month this person received an email invitation to interview for a job at cybersecurity company Splunk. They were allegedly selected because their profile on AngelList showed their skills would be a good fit. A few days after doing a Skype chat interview with a supposed HR person the victim got a job offer. That was followed by a chat with the supposed CIO, who said they would be given company funds to buy equipment for their home office, including an iPhone. All the victim had to do was link their credit card to a company account, buy the computer equipment, ship that gear to an address for the installation of security software and then the equipment would be sent to the victim. After doing that this person became suspicious. Too late. The Apple equipment presumably went to the fraudsters.
The victim missed a couple of clues. One is the email address that supposedly came from the company was “info[at]splunkcareers.us”. But the real domain of the company is “splunk.com.” Two, no company will ask you to link your payment card to their firm. To her credit, the victim did look up the profile of the person who would interview her to see if he was a…
