Beware Of Job Fraud Scams
earching for a job can be
difficult enough, but when * Project Manager -
you finally spot the 'job Project/Infrastructure/IT
of a lifetime' just consider
that if the job sounds too good * Analyst - Systems/Support/IT
to be true quite likely, it is!
* Technical Advisor -
Imagine the job of "Designer - Computer/Security/IT
Developer/Applications/IT" with a
tax-free salary of $120K for 6 * Analyst - Data Manager/IT/
months work.
Sometimes the scams are easy to
Perks including Paid Overtime at spot other times it can be more
$300 per hour, paid first-class difficult. Quite often the job
accommodation, $3,000.00 flat titles and job descriptions are
rate travel/entertainment often stolen from other
allowance for every legitimate employment sites.
intercontinental trip, free
comprehensive healthcare, two You may be able to enter a
weeks of paid vacation, a free snippet of the job description in
laptop computer and free double-quotes and find the
transportation/vehicle. original source through your
favorite search engine.
WOW!!! Where do I sign up???
For example, the position I
This is just one of the many mentioned earlier contained the
recent postings on Monster.com text "(C++, Java, HTML, PHP,
other jobs with the same salary Visual Basic)" in the job
and benefits are also available description.
including:
Search for this in Google
(including the double-quotes) and 5, Hard copies of the terms:
you ll quickly see how often this
exact string has been used in They promise reimbursement of
scam-related job postings. fees and travel expenses to
attend the interview, but only
These companies (more likely AFTER you ve shown up for the job
individuals) have absolutely no and discovered they never
intention of hiring you they existed!
are simply after the
"Administration Fee" you need to In addition to money sent to the
send in advance. fraudsters in advance -- you
could be suckered in for airfare,
Here is an example of some terms hotel and thousands of dollars in
on a recent posting on other expenses.
monster.com:
Some obvious clues that should
You are liable to make charges of send up bright red warning flags:
about USD$950.00 for the
procurement of your working and * The job is in Nigeria, or
residential permit documents posted on behalf of a Nigerian
which covers: company. Quite often the jobs are
IT-related in companies involved
1, Administrative charges: with oil, banking or mining.
2, Diplomatic Courier Charges: * The contact is using
@hotmail.com or some other free
3, Working Permit charges: email service. Legitimate offers
generally come from legitimate
4, Residential Permit charges: companies with real email
addresses. agreement and also your working
and residential permit
* The telephone number is a fake. altogether, it will be delivered
Don t even try to call. Most through Diplomatic Courier
often, if the number even works Services(DHL) to your various
at all, it leads to a mobile designated addresses
phone in Nigeria or a similar respectively."
country. Check the country code
before calling and see if it Do a Google search for
matches the company s address (if "Diplomatic Courier
they even provide one). Services(DHL)" and you will again
see dozens of listings discussing
* Beware of requests for detailed or exposing the scam.
personal information, such as a
copy of your passport, birth There are many variations to this
certificate, SSN card and so new type of scam. Currently, IT
forth. This trick is used to make professionals seem to be the
the application more real but major target. Monster.com and
if they can't sucker you on the Monster's country-specific sites
application fee they may just have become the hot target for
sell or use your identity these scamsters.
instead.
Although Monster does remove
* Quite often, there will be many bogus job postings fairly
errors in the references, quickly, the process to complain
spelling and/or grammar. Here is about them is difficult and
another example: time-consuming.
"You are to receive the hard In many online job boards, there
copies of the contract terms and is no 'filtering' or human review
process for job postings -- up-front in fact, many
otherwise such fraudulent employers will pay for your
listings would be need to be much travel expenses in advance.
more difficult. Many job boards
also allow free postings for Don t let the job of your dreams
advertisers -- making them even become a financial nightmare be
more attractive for scammers. cautious when dealing with any
business you can not easily
The important thing to remember identify or verify. Best of luck
is that few legitimate employers on your job search!
will ask for fees of any kind
Article Source: http://www.ArticleStreet.com
Marty R. Milette is a Canadian citizen and International Management Consultant who lives with his wife and son in beautiful St. Petersburg Russia -- now seeking work in the UK and battling to expose scams as described here. With over 20 years of IT experience, his first web sites appeared in 1994. Learn more at: www.marty-milette.com
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