Job Scam – Hyde Park Hotel
I’ve stayed in the Hyde Park Hotel and very good it was too. But it is now called the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel, so when I got the e-mail below I thought something was not correct. It now turns out there is now a new hotel called The Hyde Park Hotel, so I suspect that the scam is based on the fact that the hotel has just opened and it has a very good name to use to fool people.
Good day, I am applying through online and Hyde Park Hotel send me an application form and other documents regarding my application. I’ve done in the documents for for signing with that documents and email them back for the documents. Then day past they e-mail me back again they advice me to Print the Employment form out and fill it up then forward the filled Employment form to UK Home Immigration Office for your work visa process, through their e-mail contact address, ukhomeimmigrationbureau@yahoo.co.uk
Then after that the UK Home Immigration email me back they are requiring me to pass some of the necessary documents in order to process my visa. I have pass all the documents except one of their requirements and that is the LABOUR AUTHORIZATION CERTIFICATE from the UK Labour Department Office with their contact e-mail address, uklabourdepartmentoffice@googlemail.com
They require me to contact that e-mail address so I have send an e-mail that I am inquiring on their office about the Labour Authorization Certificate. Then day past I have receive an e-mail from UK Labour Department Office. The E-mail contains Labour Research Department, Department for Work and Pensions, Richmond House 79 Whitehall , London SW1A 2NS, UNITED KINGDOM , TEL +44703 180 4830.
Their message contains below :-
We’re here by sub-let you be aware, that you are obliged to send to our office, these below documents, for the further procession & approval of your labour Authorization certificate, as well as the regime dispensation fee: (176 Pounds per each applicant), to facilitate our office approval coverage & sending of your skilled workers labour Authorization certificate, which we have customary & promise to process now. When writing back to us, you’re urging to send together with yours:
1. Full Photo Picture of yours; one copy.
2. Your Contract Agreements Letter; from Hyde Park Hotel Management.
3. Your labour processing Authorization certificate fee; total amount = (176 GBP. per each applicant)Memorandum:
Ours office received your visa file references number, from the Immigration Visa subdivision and bear in mind that after 6 working days without your accomplishment & forwarding of these required documents to our office back, for further procession of your labour Authorization certificate, we will lapse your visa ref file number including all the documents, which you sent to us.
You’re instructed to use this information when transferring your processing fee to our office.
Payment must be made through western union money transfer order, to our office.. You have to use the name of our office financial department Accountant to make your payment, and then forward it together with your affirmations to us.
Here are the essentials details that you have to use for the payment processing fee at any western Union Agent/ Bank there in your country.
RECEIVER’S NAME : SEVERINA ALVES
AMOUNT 176 POUNDS
DESTINATION : ENGLAND – UNITED KINGDOM
ADDRESS : 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS, UK .
Also you have to attach the payment transfer slip from the bank, for our office verification too.
Ones more you’re welcome to our beautiful country United Kingdom , with due respect we did appreciate your efforts towards the preparation of your work approval code & permit procession with ours office. Ours administration has staffs that, speaks five different Eastern-European languages in total, which enables them to screen candidates more effectively and promptly, then deal with day-to-day issues with temporary entering visitors.
This Labour sector is meant for overseas workforce programme section, for skilled workers registering and maintaining of their personal work details in strict compliance with Home Office requirements on prevention of illegal migrants & illegal work force’s in UK Cities..
Here our director general must stamp and sign your { UK Skilled Workers
Labour Authorization Certificate} and then file it in our labour statistics as to be use during the pension service also must be approved before the Immigration office can granted you visa pin code.This subdivision has close relationship with HM Immigration Office London, where your visa approval code will be issue to you, after we have approved you’re: (L.A.C) which must be done immediately we received the above requested documents and the Labour government processing fee, from you to enable us proceed further also in aspect of registering your information’s for pensions and pension schemes.
We look forward to helping you come to the United Kingdom !
Best Regards,
Mr Wilson Larry
Minister of State (Work)
Department for Work and Pensions
It contains all of the clues; e-mail addresses from Yahoo and Googleman, expensive +4470 phone numbers, bad and US spellings etc.
Note that Wilson Larry or Larry Wilson does not seem to exist and I can’t find any other posting of this scam on the Internet, so it may be a very new scam.
Don’t ever send these crooks any money.
Scientifically-Correct – David Aaronovitch
Sometimes you wait for months for good scientific articles to come along and then you get two in one day in the same newspaper. David Aaronovitch has written this piece in The Times entitled “Climate campaigners reap what GM sowed”.
He ranges through global warming, homeopathy and GM crops, an puts a healthy plea for proper research and not to ban something just because you think it is wrong. Think of all the things in our modern society; scientific as well as moral, that were once subject of a prison sentence or even worse.
The last three paragraphs are ones that we should all heed.
But there is a rich irony here, which it has taken me some time to appreciate and that I want to share. Back in the crop-burning days of the late 1990s, when green activists prevented even trials taking place to discover more about GM produce, they rode shotgun on the denialist wagon. They didn’t care that they didn’t have the evidence, or that much of their support was mystical.
“The war against nature has to end,” Lord Melchett, the executive director of Greenpeace, told Specter, “and we are going to stop it.”
And now the green movement is in the camp of the governments and scientists, bitterly fighting the new denialists who must surely, in the words of John Wayne, remind them of them. Reaping, not sowing.
If you have time, then read his full article. But sadly, if you are in favour of Mr. Aaronovitch you will, but the various flat-earthers and deniers wouldn’t go near his well-reasoned arguments.
Scientifically-Correct – Raymond Tallis
I have used the term scientifically correct several times in this blog and you’ll find out a bit more about the history of the use of this term here.
Today, Raymond Tallis in The Times has written a comment entitled, “Test medicine in the lab, not the court”. Here’s the first two paragraphs.
A while back, I wrote a piece arguing that the retired, such as myself, had a responsibility to speak fearlessly about what we saw to be the truth and to take unpopular stands on difficult issues. After all, we no longer had any hope of advancement and the execration of ill-informed, unthinking or self-interested opponents could not touch us. Recent events have awoken my dormant cowardice to question this bravado. Speaking out on some things might mean that Mrs Tallis and I could end our days on the parish, cleaned out by a ruinous court battle with individuals or institutions with deeper pockets than us. The libel case brought against Simon Singh is one such event.
Singh is one of the most brilliant, accurate and thoughtful science writers of his generation. In 2008 he wrote a piece in The Guardian to coincide with Chiropractic Awareness Week challenging claims that spinal manipulation could be useful for treating childhood conditions such as asthma and ear infections. (Yes, ear infections — I kid you not!) The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) protested that he had defamed its reputation and threatened to sue for libel. The Guardian offered the BCA a 500-word response and an entry in its “Corrections and Clarifications” column. This was rejected, The Guardian chose not to engage in a potentially costly battle, and Singh was on his own. He courageously decided to fight on, because of the principles at stake.
Now I was married to a barrister, who did one of her pupilages in libel chambers. In those far-off days of the early 1980s, libel was all about people with massive egos and often bank balances, who felt they had been wronged in the tabloids. Now, it seems it is being used in a much more general way to protect commercial interests.
In the next few years, how many writers and scientists will challenge the established view, if they felt that what they said despite the overwhelming evidence was against the commercial interests of a large company or professional organisation?
Raymond Tallis finishes by asking us to become a signatory on the National Petition for Libel Reform. I have done what he asked and suggest that all those who want scientifically correct, rather than lawyer derived truth, should sign.
No Cambridge Busway but Council Pays
This would appear to perhaps not be the best news for the taxpayers of Cambridgeshire County Council, who seem to be paying for the busway.
Millions of pounds will be handed over to the team building the guided bus – and then council chiefs will claw the cash back.
Cambridgeshire County Council has borrowed £40 million in order to pay for the work up front.
But it insists taxpayers will not be a penny out of pocket on the £116 million bill originally agreed with contractors BAM Nuttall.
As I said in an earlier post, this is looking more and more like one for the lawyers.
But we still haven’t got an opening date for busway.
Winter Olympics
I haven’t actually watched anything live at all, despite the fact that I’ll sometimes watch things like Ski Sunday on BBC.
Perhaps the time difference to Vancouver is just too great.
Watering Down Sex Education
The government has retreated on sensible proposals on sex education, by allowing faith schools to virtually opt out of reality and the truth.
I thought that it was no well excepted that the more and better you educated kids about sex, the less teenage pregnancies you get.
But think of all those religious votes!
Donal MacIntyre
I like Donal and was interested to hear his piece on MS last night on Radio 5 Live. All good stuff that made you think.
I would feel that the project he discussed, on the use of beta-interferon could have been better handled and researched by the NHS and the other parties involved. It can’t be that sound, if some of those who originally proposed the use have now changed their views.
Research should always be impeccable.
Commons on Homeopathy
This has just been reported in the Guardian.
The NHS should stop all funding of homeopathy, an influential committee of MPs said today.
The science and technology committee of the House of Commons says there is no evidence that homeopathy has anything other than a placebo effect. It says that manufacturers must no longer be able to make medical claims for homeopathic products.
About time too!
Everything must be properly reviewed with double blind trials.
Who’d Buy Portsmouth Football Club?
Portsmouth are over £50million in debt and they are seven points adrift of the bottom of the Premiership. They also have no training ground, a small dilapidated stadium surrounded by land owned by one of the major creditors.
And yet, according to reports on the BBC, there are four or five interested parties, who want to take over the club. One South African group will provide proof of funds by Monday.
Now let’s suppose you are rich as Croesus. You also like football and feel that buying a football club would be good for your image, business interests and ultimately your bank balances.
There are quite a few clubs with rickety finances and some of these have brand new stadia and very good training facilities. As an example, Southampton has just been bought by a sensible Swiss millionaire, who appears to be enjoying his new role.
So would you buy Portsmouth if you were sane and had no other business with the owners?
No! Especially as you’re be buying a Championship Club.
The Anonymous Widower 