How does acceptance of a unilateral agreement differ from that of ordinary agreement?

LINCOLN HOTEL OFFICAL OFFER LETTER & AGREEMENT?

• My sister got an email like this, please tell me whether its true or fake ?? HOTEL UK Lincoln House Hotel, 118-120 Cathedral Road Cardiff, South Glamorgan South Wales, CF11 9LQ. United Kingdom. Tel: +44-7024057629,+44-7024096843 Dear: Miss H.Malsawmtluangi, It is the utmost importance to inform you that after the screening and scrutiny of your Curriculum Vitae with other verification procedures carried out, we, the Human Resources Department, were able to resolve the status of your application. On this note, we hereby congratulate you on the success of your application and as such we have attached to you the Soft Copies Of Contract Appointment Letter and the Contract Agreement Letter that transcends any written document. You are therefore required to follow these procedures IMMEDIATELY so as to complete your employment formalities: (1) You are to contact the BARRISTER in other to secure a POLICE CLEARANCE PAPERS FROM THE THOMAS JOHNSON & ASSOCIATES UK with the below contact address for your valid POLICE CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE IMMEDIATELY so as to enable the company to give you a Three(3) years free visa and other documents that will enable you work in UNITED KINGDOM legally. Note that the submitting of the POLICE CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE MUST as stipulated in the offer letter as it would take four (4) working days for the THOMAS JOHNSON AND & ASSOCIATES UK to issue you the POLICE CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE . Below are the contact details of the THOMAS JOHNSON AND & ASSOCIATES: THOMAS JOHNSON AND & ASSOCIATES 19 Cornwallis Road Bilton, Rugby CV22 7HL United Kingdom. E-MAIL: [email protected] ALTERNATIVE E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL: +44-7024081507 +447024039825 (2)You are required to sign the last column of the Contract Appointment Letter and send it back to us for the confirmation of your offer and for the acceptance of the job offer:We hereby once more congratulate you on the success of your application amongst many that have applied and thereby instruct you to expedite all requirements as aforementioned so as to be able to meet the team before the deadline.Do get back to us with developments and updates regarding the issuance of the POLICE CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE from the barrister so that the management can proceed on your traveling papers as soon as you submit the clearance for their reference . Note that you are to call us immediately for proper guideline regarding the Contract and also for the issuance of the police clearance paper. Congratulations once again. LINCOLN HOTEL UK, London, United Kingdom. HR Manager Mrs.Sandra.T.Ermon Email: [email protected] Tel: +44-7024057629,+44-7024096843

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  It's a scam for so many reasons 1 - any number starting with +4470 is a redirect number, not a UK landline. You think you are dialing the UK but your call is redirected to any phone anywhere in the world.That is one of the hallmarks of scammers http://www.joewein.net/blog/2009/11/08/dial-44-70-uk-numbers-for-international-fraudsters/ 2 - no company in the UK, especially a hotel, will EVER offer a job to anyone online that they have never interviewed in person. If your sister was not flown to the UK or a company representative did not fly to your country, there is no job 3 - there is no such thing as a Police Clearance Certificate requirement to get a work permit 4 - the scammer doesn't even know what city they are in, Cardiff is in Wales, but in the signature they say London which is in England. And are they called UK Lincoln House Hotel or Lincoln Hotel UK? Two different names? 5 - @sify is a free email address like yahoo, gmail,hotmail, etc. No legitimate business would ever use an @sify address 6 - you would never contact a barrister for anything. The only organisation you should ever contact is the British embassy/consulate or their authorised visa office in YOUR country. You need to apply for your visa in your country of residence by going to the embassy with a copy of your employer's Certificate of Sponsorship and your passport. There you are fingerprinted, photographed, and you get the visa stamped in your passport 7 - hotel workers are not on the skills shortage list, so it would be impossible for any hotel to offer a job to a non EU national 8 - there is no Thomas Johnson and Associates registered with the UK Bar Council so this is not a real barrister 9 - the address they gave you for the "barrister" belongs to Powertek that makes electrical equipment, nothing to do with law http://www.powertekuk.com/apower.htm Here is the real contact details of Lincoln House Hotel in London. Call them and they will confirm they never offered you any job http://www.lincoln-house-hotel.co.uk/ You can get in touch with us by Telephone on 44 (0) 20 7486 7630 or by Fax on 44 (0) 20 7486 0166 or you can email us at [email protected] or you can write to us at Lincoln House Hotel, 33 Gloucester Place, Marble Arch, London W1U 8HY And here's the real Lincoln House Hotel in Cardiff http://www.lincolnhotel.co.uk/ Tel: + 44 (029) 20 395558 Or send them an email through their site - who again will confirm they did not offer any job Your sister needs to report this to the police, the site where the job was posted, whichever agency in your country investigates internet crime. If she sent her passport details, contact your national passport office immediately as her passport and identity may now be used to commit crime. If she sent any bank account information, she needs to call her bank ASAP and freeze her account. She now also has to be very careful online. Now that the scammers have her email address she will continue to be targeted with more and more elaborate scams. From now on, she should not open emails from anyone she doesn't know. They will target her with phishing scams, fake lottery winnings, fake job offers and other scams all designed to access her information and steal all of her money