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Why this looks valid
Unsolicited job offers directed at college students are very common
Often these emails are created to look like they are from valid employers, and can even include details such as official logos
UNiDAYS is a real company that offers discounts to college students
Why this is fraud
Generic salutations and signoffs are good indicators of malicious emails (student welfare rep.? admin department.?)
Awkward sentence construction, grammatical errors, and punctuation inconsistencies are good indicators of malicious emails
Responding to this email leads to the collection of personal information
Additional interaction with the sender leads to a check fraud scam
Additional notes
Are you a Marist student looking for a job? Contact the right experts who can help you at the Center for Career Services: https://www.marist.edu/academic-resources/career-services
Fraudulent job offers are extremely common. For more information, see https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/20710-scam-alert-employment-scams-target-college-students
The FTC has additional information about how these scams work. The sender will mail a check and ask the recipient to send back the difference in the service cost through a wire transfer. The check will be fraudulent, but by the time your bank figures it out you will be out a few hundred (or thousand!) dollars and it is likely those funds will never be recovered: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams
If you receive one of these emails and have interest in learning more, make sure to look up the company, verify it is real, and then seek out an official corporate email address or the Human Resources phone number to ask for more information
A little paranoia goes a long way! Be suspicious of any email messages similar to this one and always forward them right away to phishing@marist.edu