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I got an email from Mrs Veronica Oshea about job openings at Carnival Cruise Australia. How true is the email?

• JOB ID: AU/CCL/HTL/0873-11/12 Carnival Cruise Lines Australia urgently needs the services of devoted and hardworking people who are ready to work after undergoing enlistment training. Qualified applicant should contact us immediately for job placement here at Carnival Cruise Lines Australia. The management intends to increase its manpower base due to increasing number of customers in our Cruise Linear. The company need about 387 workers to sum up with the already registered employers whom their visas has been issued, because many workers will be leaving the company cause of the expiration of their contracts with the company. PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING: Employment Type: Full-Time/Part-Time Base Pay: $45,000 - $125,000 /Year Preferred Language of Resume/Application: English Type of work: Permanent Status: All Vacancies Job Location: Sydney Australia Visa Type: 3 (Three) Years working permit BENEFITS, PACKAGES AND ENTITLEMENT: These are the Entitlements, Benefits and Packages from the Company. Paid Airfares, Transportation, Quality single or family housing accommodation in company community, Free medical/dental care, Excellent educational assistance benefits, Life Insurance and Paid vacation and Maximum security in work environment and housing community. The management will secure a visa/working permit for any qualified person. VISA FEE, ACCOMMODATION and FLIGHT TICKET will be paid by the management THESE ARE THE AVAILABLE POSITIONS: Accountant Deck Hand Musician Activities Director Disc Jockey Naturalist Activities Staff Cleaner Security Adminstration Engineering Photographer Online Reservation Agent Engine Room Staff Printer Bar Staff Entertainer Production Manger Bar Steward Expedition Leader Purser Bartender Fitness Instructor Purse staff Beautician/ Aesthetician Food and Beverage Staff Public Relation Staff Bedroom Steward Gentleman Host Restaurant Staff Casino Staff Gift Shop Staff Reservation Staff Chef Host SCUBA Instructor

• Answer:

  100% scam. There is no job and no legit company called that name. Any phone number that starts with +44-70 or anything similar is not based in the United Kingdom. It is from a UK based cell phone redirect service that can be answered by anyone anywhere in the world. It is a favorite service of scammers who want to pretend to be in the United Kingdom but are really half way around the world from there. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "government visa official" or "travel agent" and will demand you pay, in cash, via Western Union or moneygram. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. 6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs: 1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one. 2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order. 3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity. 4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone. 5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram. 6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site. Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason. If you google "fraud visa job scam", "fake UK hotel job Western Union scam" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.