Fake Job Scam!!?

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Hi guys I need your opinion on this matter which is bothering me.

I have been in the process of job hunting (accounting/admin work) and just couple of days ago I received this email from the following recruitment website: http://career-source.co.uk/welcome-to-career-source/. Well the recruiter had @career-source.co.uk after her name. Notice how the website doesn't have 'contact us' details

Greetings Adeel Mirza (My name),

Your CV has been obtained from the Jobsite UK website.

My name is Maria, I am the manager of Career Source Recruitment, a leading recruiting agency for home based and part-time jobs. I email you with regard to the job seeking information you have recently posted.

I'd like to propose you the post of Administrative Assistant available for you at your preferred Location.

Our client, Yakima FX - a major Japanese financial company,
the foreign exchange specialists operating within the Europe is a focused provider of payments and processing.
The company was founded in 1999 and has operations in Australia, Scandinavia, UAE, United Kingdom, Spain, Malta, Ireland
and the USA.

In a view of our client's growth in the GB market,
they are currently recruiting new personnel.
Specific education is not requested to work for the Yakima FX. Our client provides you with the part-time job, you are able work 2-3 hours per day at any convenient schedule mostly sitting in front of your PC.

The initial payrate varies within £1200-£3000 to be uplifted up to £8,000, and even larger bonuses for those ones making a good showing in some time.

Advantages :
-up to three employment hours per day ;
-no charges and fees;
-social welfare;
-interesting and exciting work in the successfull corporation.
-career growth ;
-commissions from business deals; -no special skills needed ;
-flexible working schedule - choose a convenient work schedule;

This is NOT a telesales position.

See the company's official site for additional information:
http://www.yakimafx.com

Could you please confirm that you are still interested in employment? If you are, please, let me know and I will get back to you with more information on the position.
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The company is some 'japanese foreign exchange specialist' based in Tokyo.

http://www.yakimafx.com

Notice how all the employees seem to be from UK.

Now I have been accepted in to the company without any interview and this is email from 'regional manager Mr Kiyoshi Yoneda':

Hello Adeel,

Let me introduce myself - my name is Kiyoshi Yoneda and I was assigned as your
Yakima FX personal manager.
First of all i should welcome you in the fast growing Yakima FX family
part of which you are become now.
Career-Source provided us your signed contract and now we will proceed to
the last stage of your hiring.

Please confirm once you'll receive this message!

If you have any questions regarding your employment and your position
- ask them!
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I then ask him certain questions:

Dear Mr Yoneda

Thankyou very much for accepting me as 'Administrative Assistant' in the Yakima FX. I really appreciate it. I am also very excited about working for Yakima FX.

Before I proceed to asking about my employment, I just need to clarify a matter. On the application form, in one of the previous jobs, instead of giving monthly salary, I gave the annual salary.
The annual salary figure I wrote was £**** (Rough Estimate)
It should have been £**** monthly figure (Rough Estimate)

If that can be rectified I will very much appreciate it. I have informed ***** from Career Source Recruitment aswell.

As this is all new to me, I do have some questions regarding my employment.

I have been told that for now I will be working from my home as Yakima FX will be expanding in new offices in near future. So there is possibility that once those offices open up, my workplace can be relocated from my home to those offices?

As this is part time position, is there possibility of full time work in future?

Is this position of 'Administrative Assistant' temporary? If so, would it become permanent? Also would I be on probabtion period initially? If so, how long is the probation period?

Although I have worked in different fields as seen in my CV and application form, the foreign exchange is a new field to me. I am very excited about this field and no doubt working for Yakima FX will provide me with a lot of new knowledge and skills. I would like to ask what kind of training will be provided?

Also will there be an induction training where I can meet you face to face and become familiar with the organisation?

I have been told that monthly salary will be £1200 + commission. Can you please confirm this.

Finally I would like to ask what kind of tasks I would be carrying out in this position? I have been given job description and understand it. However I still need further insight into this position.

Thankyou very much again Mr Yoneda. If I have some further questions, I would let you know.

Best Regards,

Adeel Mirza
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This is his reply without even answering my specific questions. It seems to be more of an automated email

Hello Adeel,

You'll get your first transfer within a week after we've got this data from you.

You'll also receive per e-mail all the information about the payment
in details. This information will include: sender's information,
payment method, amount, payment time, and your percent. You'll get
this data as soon as it becomes available to us. At the end of the
payment you should inform us about it providing with the short report
presenting the information about the sender, payment, kept commission,
fees (costs spent on money transfer which are excludes from our
payment share), total forwarded amount, Money Transfer Control Number
(you'll get them as a result of transferring by means of Western
Union).

To start work with you we require some more details.

Bank Account Information (Infact you can open an account in any bank
you want but faster and better would be to use one of yours)

Bank Name:
Sort Code:
Account Name:
Account Number:

Daily ATM withdrawal limit:
Daily Branch withdrawal limit:

Mobile phone number:
Landline phone number:
- Show quoted text -
[email protected]> wrote:
- Show quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
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Kiyoshi Yoneda
United Kingdom regional manager
Yakima FX, Tokyo, Japan
+81 3-4560-8883 add. 8041
http://www.yakimafx.com
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Apparently my 'paperwork' has also been sent to HR department in tokyo.
I haven't given them any bank details yet and don't think I will do. It smells of scam.


I need to rely on OcUK community in this matter. I know it is pretty long but your help will be much appreciated.

:(
 
Do you guys think it is some money laundering scam?

I knew getting a job without any interview seemed too good enough to be true. Plus I have googled the address and doesn't seem to comeup with any concrete information except some narrow slum like alley.

Plus there is no mention of training or anything.
 
PiKe said:
Give them bogus details and see where it leads.
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The problem is they have my details. I think I won't proceed any further.

But here is the contract from 'yakima fx'

PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT
1.Parties
Employer: Yakima FX, represented by Haruka Miyakawa, President
Address: Honcho 6-16-14-3, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-0012, Japan



Employee:
Address:



2. Title of Position Administrative Assistant

3. Commencement/Termination Date
3.1 This is a Part-time Contract between the Employer and the Employee. The duration of the contract will be from the moment of its signature by both Parties until terminated by any of the Parties.

3.2 This contract does not confer any right to any permanent job that may become vacant or available.

4. Duties
The Employee shall carry out such duties as are assigned to him/her by the Employer confirming to the Law, including but not limited to:
(a) cooperation between (the Employee) and Yakima FX, represented by Haruka Miyakawa, President (the Employer) regarding the items as stated in Paragraphs 4.b, 4.c, 4.d, 4.e and 4.f of this Agreement.
(b) opening an account or use an existing account in a bank deemed most appropriate for cooperation and for handling international business activity (money transfering) requested by the Employer, making available information as required by the Employer and vice versa as per Employer’s instructions.
(c) handling international money transfering going from customers of the Employer to the account in the Employee’s name requested by the Employer and vice versa as per Employer’s instructions.
(d) being responsible for the amount of the international investments going from customers of the Employer to the account in the Employee’s name.
(e) maintaining appropriate records and making available information as required by the Employer.
(f) keeping a mobile telephone switched on 24 hours a day, being able to answer telephone calls.
From time to time the Employee may be required to carry out other duties appropriate to his/her position.

5. Hours of Work
5.1 There are no fixed hours of work imposed on the Employee. However, the Employee should be able to fulfil the tasks set forth before him/her in the time frame specified by the Employer.
5.2 The Employee shall be available on his/her mobile telephone 24 hours a day in order to be able to promptly deal with arising challenges if there are any.

6. Remuneration
6.1 Remuneration will be paid depending on the amount of the transfers from customers of the Employer.
6.2 Remuneration will constitute £1.200.00 plus £10 per hour (1,8-5.8% commission per each received transfer + £1500/mo for managers with corporate/business account). The payment is sent as a wire transfer/payment check approximately once a week.
6.3 There are no other payments that the Employer is liable to pay the Employee other than as stated in Paragraphs 6.1 and 6.2 of this Agreement.

7. Annual Leave
Holiday entitlement will be in accordance with the United Kingdom Law.


8. Sick Pay
8.1 The Employee, being a part-time one, is not entitled to any sick leave pay.
8.2 The Employer must be notified on the morning of the first day of any unavailability due to illness.

9. Confidentiality
The Employer is obliged to maintain confidentially in certain aspects of its work. It is the duty of the Employee to observe such confidentiality. This restriction shall continue to apply after termination of this Contract.

10. Intellectual Property
Any discovery or invention or secret process or improvements in procedure made or discovered by the Employee while discharging his/her duties in relation to this position is the property of the Employer or of such companies as the Employer may nominate for this purpose.

11. Health and Safety
Responsibility for health and safety at work rests with the Employee. He/she should carry out their duties and responsibilities taking due care regarding health, safety and welfare without putting at risk the health of themselves or any third party.

12. Resignation/Termination
The Employee may terminate this Contract on not less than one months notice in writing.

13. Suspension/Dismissal/Discipline
The Employer shall have power to suspend the Employee, to impose disciplinary sanctions on the Employee and to terminate the Contract in accordance with disciplinary/dismissal procedures as subject to the Law of UK and any other applicable legislation.
14. External Activity
Any external activity engaged in by the Employee must not be such as to interfere with the fulfilling of the Employee’s duties and responsibilities to the Employer.

15. Declarations and Signatures
Both Employer and the Employee have read and fully understand the foregoing Terms and Conditions of Employment and agree to abide by the terms of this contract and further warrant that all statements and representations which have been made in application for this appointment are true and correct.


Signed: Date: ( / / )
(Employer - Haruka Miyakawa )


Signed:
Date: ( / / )
(Employee –
)
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I mean give them bogus bank details, will probably cost them to try and do what they do.
 
It's a complete scam. Pretty obvious.

Plus there's the fact that as an employee of an international trader/financial instititution you would never, EVER EVER EVER be expected to use a personal bank account, in YOUR NAME, to transfer money between the business and clients.
 
Dan Dan said:
http://tjshome.com/blog/211/scam/internet/business/4-com

maybe helpful
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I used that 'whoislookup' page on career service website and it seems to have been created just last year. Definitely a scam.

Domain name:
career-source.co.uk

Registrant:
Tomash Foster

Registrant type:
UK Individual

Registrant's address:
71 Bevington Close
Patchway
BS34 5NP
United Kingdom

Registrar:
Internet.bs Corp. t/a Internet.bs Corp. [Tag = INTERNET-BS]
URL: http://www.internetbs.net

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 20-Sep-2010
Renewal date: 20-Sep-2012
Last updated: 22-Sep-2010

Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.

Name servers:
ns1.web-leader.net
ns2.web-leader.net
ns3.web-leader.net
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PiKe said:
I mean give them bogus bank details, will probably cost them to try and do what they do.
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Could give a try :D

Pestilence said:
It's a complete scam. Pretty obvious.

Plus there's the fact that as an employee of an international trader/financial instititution you would never, EVER EVER EVER be expected to use a personal bank account, in YOUR NAME, to transfer money between the business and clients.
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This is exactly what I thought. Seemed very strange 'cause I have never come across such thing before. I guess it is a good life experience to know I saved myself from almost getting scammed. Thanks to Ocuk community for their detective part aswell. :)
 
Also if you'd done a whois lookup on website of that so called company you'd find that the domain was only registered last month and is owned by a web hosting in the states.
 
How the hell can someone fall for something like this!? It really is beyond me...

3 hours work per day = £1,200-£3,000 a month!?!?!? REALLY?!
 
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