Are Fake Job Adverts Returning?
I haven’t seen any for some time, but this one turned up this morning.
Hot Jobs from Reliable and Successful Company Running its business since 2005, Company has several openings for goal-oriented and independent individuals looking for excellent career opportunities.
Requirements
– 25+ years old
– UK citizenship
– No criminal record
– Good credit history
– Basic computer skills
– A proven level of secondary educationWhat we offer
– high and stable income
– exciting career opportunities
– two weeks’ paid holiday a year
– great team to work with
– bonuses and our private employee loyalty programme benefits
– and many other thingsWhat you do is just work from home and get advantage of all these opportunities, as the job we offer requires only a few hours of your time spent on your computer.
You are full of energy, learn fast and seek for best career opportunities? Do contact us at xxx@xxx.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
We look forward to welcoming you as a new employee.
Sincerely,
irvine thierry
It was a bit better than most of the previous scams, which are designed to get your bank account details, so you can donate large sums of money to the criminals. It was even sent from what looked like a valid UK e-mail address, although mine was addressed to a man called Fidole Shem, who is definitely not me.
It was also marked by my anti-spam system as spam.
But what was a real giveaway was the low level of paid holidays. I wouldn’t get out of bed for a job like that!
So it went the way of the others and I dispatched it humanely with the delete key.
The Anonymous Widower 
Some of these jobs arent exactly fake, they usually involve selling something or other, a few people turn out to do really well, the rest fail miserably. My cousin’s son tried a couple of these things, although they werent online ones. He got them off the internet, and he had to travel to whatever area the team were selling in that day, and try a flog the product door to door. Pay was commision only, and he had to pay for his own travel. He didnt sell anything.
Comment by liz | July 12, 2011 |
Bt he was conned. His travel and other expenses meant that the company were able to prve they’d done something.
Comment by AnonW | July 12, 2011 |
high risk that this is the local link in the bank phishing scam – illegally gained funds are trasnfered into the “employee’s” account, they then have to wothdraw them (keepng and agred proportion for themsleves) and send them on in an untraceable form – and guess who is last in the line of the evidence trail when the constabulary comes knocking????
Comment by jack | February 26, 2012 |
Don’t have anything to do with them. Except laugh, that anybody would be conned and then use the Delete key!
Comment by AnonW | February 26, 2012 |
Sadly there are a lot of very naive and gullible people out there, who are desparate to work, like my late cousin’s son, above. He lacked the life experience to realise it was probably a scam, and didnt have parents who could warn him about it.
Comment by liz | February 26, 2012 |
Did he Sort himself out in the end?
Comment by AnonW | February 26, 2012 |
Yes, he decided not to go back the next day, and found a job in Scotland via GumTree which we helped him to check out to make sure it was genuine. He is still up there nearly 2 years later.
Comment by liz | February 26, 2012 |