The FTC has warned college students about a scam involving scammers posing as fake professors. They send you an email using a college domain name and offers the student a part-time job. The scammer then sends the student a check, asks them to deposit it at a financial institution, send the money to someone else and says keep the rest for payment. Then the financial institution realizes the check is fake and takes back the original amount. Now the student is out the amount sent to someone else (the scammer!).