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Campus safety services at Carleton University is warning students to be on guard against a phishing scam as e-mails purporting to seek a part-time personal assistant.

Delete the e-mail immediately, don’t text the number provided and don’t give out a name or e-mail address, safety services said Wednesday.

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Call the ITS service desk “immediately.”

Be wary of unsolicited e-mails seeking personal information or a click on a web link, campus security warns. Watch for attempts to capture passwords, calls for urgent action or clues like subject lines in all capitals or spelling and grammatical errors.

The scammers can apparently be convincing. A North Dakota student who lost nearly $4,000 after thinking she’d taken a job helping a professor at her school said that the e-mail appeared to come from another account at her university, Valley News Live of Fargo reported.

She thought the money she was purportedly depositing on his behalf was to help orphans.