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“Dean Hides Author’s Identity” Phishing Email

An Odd YouTube Related Scam Making The Rounds

Below is an example of a phishing email that has been reported to the Department of Information Technology (DoIT).  From: k chan <kkchan3275@aol.com> Date: Sun, Jan 10, 2021  Subject:...

Posted: January 19, 2021, 6:24 PM

Salesforce Implementation Update: Keeping you informed

What everyone should know about Salesforce

In this first of a series of updates, we’ll give a brief description of what Salesforce is, provide an overview of UMBC’s goals for the project, and summarize what we’re currently working on and...

Posted: January 19, 2021, 5:09 PM

M.O.S.T. Open Educational Resources Workshop Series

By Maryland Open Source Textbook & Rebus Community

We are excited to offer you the opportunity to register for an upcoming series of webinars on high-demand topics in OER, hosted by the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative in...

Posted: January 19, 2021, 9:54 AM

Call for Proposals MOST Open Educational Resources Grants

Engage, create, revise, research

The Call for Proposals for the 2021 Faculty OER Mini-grants is now open. The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Initiative has several grant opportunities for faculty who are interested in...

Posted: January 15, 2021, 12:09 PM

CISCO Job Scam Emails “PART TIME JOB OFFER”

New Year, Same Scams

It’s a new year UMBC’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is still seeing scammers sending out phishing emails offering fake jobs to students. Below is an example of one of these job scam...

Posted: January 15, 2021, 11:24 AM

Job Scam Impersonation Email “UMBC Student Job”

Fake Job Offer For "Student Administrative Assistant"

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has been notified that a scammer is sending out phishing emails claiming to offer a part-time job as an Administrative Assistant the UMBC’s Academic...

Posted: January 15, 2021, 11:20 AM

Corestaff Services Job Scam “UMBC COVID-19 UPDATE”

Job Scams Continue To Target UMBC Students

Below is an example of a job scam phishing email that was recently reported to the Division of Information Technology (DoIT). The scam email below has the subject “UMBC COVID-19 UPDATE” and is...

Posted: January 15, 2021, 11:11 AM

Personal Assistant Job Scam

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has been notified that a scammer is sending out phishing emails claiming to offer an interim personal assistant job available. The offer is a fake. ...

Posted: January 14, 2021, 1:45 AM

Password Phishing Scam

Another fake link in an email to steal your password

This morning we have received reports of a phishing scam targeting members of the UMBC community.  This scam appears to come from the Help Desk, and states that a request was made to deactivate...

Posted: January 12, 2021, 11:45 AM

2021 M.O.S.T. State Summit: Call for Session Proposals

Open Educational Resources for Advancing Equity & Inclusion

The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Initiative is now accepting session proposals for the 2021 M.O.S.T. State Summit, which will take place virtually April 8-9, 2021.  The theme of...

Posted: January 11, 2021, 10:08 AM