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The guys in Nigeria say "please kindly" all the time.....I have seen and heard of lots of scam job adverts, and also I have seen an advert that looked suspect, phoned the company who were unaware of the advert and they investigated it and took legal action on the website where it was posted to get it taken off as it was using their good name to trick jobsearchers, these adverts will often be semi polite, which makes you overlook their oddness, and they are hoping for a shopping list of personal details, the rest they can get off the births marriages and deaths online register for a pound or steal from your facebook etc,before you know it they take out a credit card in your name and get it posted to their cousin over here.
A friend of mine who is an Electrician went on Holiday to see his daughter and grandchildren in Australia at Christmas a few years ago, he went out one night to a restaurant with the family and went to pay the bill, he had all of his cards declined, and plenty of money to cover it, he had cash on him and used that then he phoned the Bank over here who asked him....Are you in Australia?...he said yes, I am in Sydney I told you I was going here....they said "for security reasons we have cancelled all of your cards and issued new ones which will be with you in the next day or 2 with a courier" when he asked why they told him that although he had been out of the country for over a week, somebody else had just used his card, or a copy of, to spend 3 and a half grand in Glasgow city centre buying 2 brand new plasma tv's in 1 go..
 
hi guys i recently received a job offer from a company called steel tech construction and something just doesnt seem right about the letter and i am worried this may be some sort of scam check out the email



something about that letter just doesnt seem right especially the bit about booking flight and being meet at the airport plus my contact email ends in a gmail account rather than a business address
For God's sake mate, please please please trust your instincts. If it don't feel right - and even if you're a paranoid skitso, trust your gut feeling. I ALWAYS operate by that feeling. You have a human instinct for a reason. Use it. And keep us informed please mate.
 
any genuine company would not make a tenth of the mistakes . it's obviously foreign, probably african . don't tell em anything.
 
chaps this thread is 10 months old... talk about grave digging!!! mind you i wonder if he got the job!

probably sat in some cage on the Somalian beech getting poked with a stick!
 

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