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It was a very well organized scam conducted by a group of some highly professional people in cyber crime.
They put a job opening on one of the recognized UK job portal “XING” from the very big oil and gas multi national company "TOTAL" on the name of "Mr. Philip Jordan" who is officially the head of careers and recruitment department of the company.
They reply through an email id which is "Human Resource Department, Total UK" Carrieer.[protected]@total.co.uk. (contact no.- +[protected]) They asked me first to fill an application form and send the scan copy. Then they asked to fill a form that they call as “Improvised Tentative Interview” form that is written format of interview. All these forms look very official with company monogram on it and very relevant questions.
After all this they finally gave me a job offer whose documents again look complete official. In that and in previous mail they said that even after having job offer you have to come to London for a face to face oral interview to check the validity of candidate. In this the applicant have to pay 33% of the expenses as part of showing commitment to join the company that will be reimbursed as soon as I reach London. They referred me to a travelling agency Peace alliance tours and travels with website www.peace-alliance.com and talk to “Mr. Raymond” (contact no.- +[protected]) to arrange all travelling requirements. There they have taken 1489 pounds (33% amount) and other scanned documents.
After that they asked me to fill an “Anti terrorist application form” for which I have to submit 4000 pounds which is also refundable when I reach London. There I realized that I am in scam. They were still in conversation with me both on mail and contact nos. and assuring me the things will be fine. After my lot of suspicion they put a different story and assuring me that people dealing with me on travelling agency were fraud and so called “Mr. Philip Jordan” will now try catch hold of them and situation is under control. Somehow I was then able to find official contact nos. of company and after contacting them got confirmed of being in scam but I have lost around 1500 pounds in all this.
I have all the documents, mails, contact nos., names that they used and will produce as per requirement in the investigation.
This was a very planned scam executed by some professional scammers and things are done so fast and professionally that it was difficult to catch them initially and you just give benefit of doubt to them with such a lucrative offer and professional way of dealing and all relevant documents.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
Hello All!
I have also received the exact same email 30 mins back.. The only difference the contact person was Gigilo Caurley. Thank God I immediately checked . Be ALERT AND SAFE!
HAYS TRAVEL LIMITED
76 Upton Ln, London E7 9LW, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Gigilo Caurley
Phone: +[protected]
Phone: +[protected]
Fax: +[protected]
Email: reservationhays@mail2recruiter.com
Same Text here in Norway! :
Dear Thomas B. Svendsen,
Thanks for your interest in the Total UK Family. Please note that your resume has been evaluated and you have been shortlisted for
Job interview. Please go through the attachment for important details of the invitation.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
Regards,
Alan Sealy,
Total UK Ltd.
3 of the Attachments where Letter of Invitations, Job Spec, and some info about Total.
My eyes whent up when i saw the .net portal. Who uses .net... then i saw this email one day prior in my junk mail:
Dear Thomas B. Svendsen,
Thanks for your interest in working with Total United Kingdom. Be informed that your job application has been received and your resume is currently under review and screening by our recruiting board. We will be in contact with you again within the next 48 hours should you qualify for this vacant job position at Total U.K.
Thank you for your participation.
Warm Regards,
Dr Winstone Robert,
Total UK Ltd
From a Gmail account... Hahaha seriously gmail! what oil company uses GMAIL, , , F U amateur fraud hackers.
Best regards
Thomas
I also received mail with 3 attachments, and with contact numbers of travel agency such as
Contact Person: Mr. Christopher Fraser,
Crystal Travels Consultancy and Tours
Emperor House Colliers Green, Cranbrook
Kent, TN17 2LS
Tel: +[protected]
Tel: +[protected]
Fax: +[protected]
Email: crystal.travelsconsultancy-uk@outlook.com
info@travels-crystal.com
hi I'm From Philippines.
so this email is all [censored] SCAM?
On 20 Mar 2018 6:40 am, "TOTAL HQ (info@total.com)" wrote:
Attn: Mr.
Thanks for your interest in the Total UK Family, please note that your resume has been evaluated and you have been shortlisted for Job interview. Please go through the attachments for important details of the invitation.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
Regards,
Engr. Anthony Estephan
(Human Resource Relation Officer)
TOTAL UK.
Thanks for the notification.
I received one too representing such as they were from EXXON Mobil, UK.
I read documents (invitation letter, job descriptions and travel arrangement process)
Documents were prepared on papers carrying EXXON Mobile monograms.
As I examine documents I found some inconsistencies:
There were font style and size differences in the same document doubting me.
Somewhere in the document sentence was broken and continuing another paragraph - one company such such as EXXON do not make such typing mistakes
They were asking me first contact with travel agency and then inform them indicating they would pay expenses only if I arrange this travel through directed travel agency and they would pay when I arrive London if travel agency arranged to do so.
I also doubted from the name of the name of the agency "City Breaks..." and its domain name on the e-mail was @outlook.com. Such a big global company never work with such a low grade one where its domain was ootlook.com
Then I checked the domain name at the original e-mail they sent me first. It was totally unrelated one from EXXON Mobil UK. I had to conduct this control at the very beginning. I did decided not no read documents more and proceed.
Thanks,
Vedat