Fake Job Alert & Beware of these fake job offers

Finding a job is tough, but finding out the great job you have been offered is a scam is even worse. One thing many job scams have in common is that you are asked to send an advance fee to secure the position or pay for related materials.

 Victims are lured through newspaper ads and emails, creating the impression of a job opportunity where people can be mystery shoppers for reputable companies.

The way the scam works is:

• You receive a letter with a job offer – along with a check – to serve as a paid mystery shopper.
• You are told to cash the check, keeping a portion of the funds as compensation and using another portion to buy goods at a business specified in the letter – to “mystery shop” the retailer as a way to evaluate its customer service skills. 
• You are instructed to use a money transfer company to wire the remaining portion of the money to a name provided. 
• You later find out that the check was counterfeit, and the portion of the money transferred to the named individual cannot be retrieved – so you are defrauded of those funds.

There have been increasing incidences of job portals and some unscrupulous elements of our society reaching out to susceptible job aspirants making fake job offers in the name of MNC's. Any job offer made in the name of Tech Mahindra on the condition that the candidates make a payment to a specified bank account or in cash should be construed as a ‘Fake Offer’.

Here are some tips to help you identify hoax email job offers:

╚  Such emails generally come from a free, public domain email account (such Gmail, Rediffmail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail, and so on) and not a company email id such as “.Company.com.” Please note some time the original mail id could be masked using MNC’s name. ╚

Some examples of the email IDs used for sending fake job offers:

company@interviewmail.com,company.info@interviewmail.com,company@one.co.il,

company.hrdirectrecruitdept@hotmail.com,careers.company@companyhr.info,

company@hotmail.com, company.company@gmail.com, companyinfo@tcs.com,

company.apply@gmail.com,company@tech-center.com, company1@hotmail.com,

♣ They request a cash deposit in a bank account or payment in some other forms.

♣ They ask for personal details such as bank account, credit card number, personal address,social security/PAN number.

♣ Email begins with "Dear Sir" or "Dear User", the sender of the email does not know you by name.

♣ Grammatical errors in the email text.This would not usually happen in an email from a legitimate company