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Is norbreck castle hotel job offers thru online are legitimate?

  • Hi. I'm a little bit confused here coz i've tried to register and apply my cv on the website in London jobs, and I've got an email coming from highfield house hotel, to which Ive applied my cv with, saying there's no available positions and they're sorry.. so they forwarded my cv to norbreck castle as they said that this hotel is in need of employees right now. After a day, the Norbreck castle hotel emailed me that my cv's being considered and i have to answer few interview questions thru email. It's about 10 questions and I've answered it once Ive read it. After a day, they've responded that I should fill up the documents and put my signature on it. It's like a personal profile and a hotel terms and conditons documents. So i answered, signed and scanned it back to them. After 2 days, they emailed me, congratulating me that Im one of those successful applicants. Together with the email are th 4 documents attached. Stating my monthly salary which is 4000 pounds with annual pay of about 1000 pounds and etc. theyve sent me a contract with a dispatch number on it. by the way my job Ive applied is a receptionist. Stated in the email is that my plane ticket is free, also the lodging and food. All i have to do is pay for visa assistance or visa application about 200 pounds thru western union or british bank account. the account number's not stated, only the email addresses and one contact number only. Ive searched for this patrick benedict online and i found some applicant also asking for help questioning is patrick benedict a legitimate director or if this job offer a scam or not? All answered that this is scam. I just wonder, the one i applied with is the highfield house thru online job hunt and theyve just forwarded my cv in that norbreck castle, with this kind of linkage between them, is highfiled hotel that ive first applied with is a scam also? knowing that theyve said that theyre sorry for there are no availbale positions for me now and they have to forward my resume to norbreck? I mean 2 scammers helping out each other??? help! I got this highfield thru london jobs website... please help.. i wanted to call norbreck HR department to confirm my employment but i dont know the number of the hotel management. I hope someone can help me with this mess.

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    100% scam. There is no job. There is only ONE scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money by using a couple of his fake names and free email addresses. The next email will be from yet 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 UK hotel job scam", "fake job visa Western Union" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

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Sounds like a real scam 1 - I don't know ANY company in the UK that would hire anyone without a face to face interview and for a hotel job most hotels require a police CRB check. And as a receptionist they need to make sure you can SPEAK fluent English plus at least one other major European language. They can't tell that by emailed questions, it must be done in person. Plus they don't know what you look like, and I bet you've never seen a really fat or ugly person working as a hotel receptionist because they are hired for their looks as they are the "face" of the hotel 2 - If you are not an EU citizen no hotel can hire you as you would not qualify for sponsorship. Receptionist is not a "highly skilled" position requiring a Masters or PhD and is not on the Shortage Occupation List. When there are more than 3 million unemployed people in the UK there is NO way any hotel could prove they advertised a position for at least 4 weeks and NOT ONE EU citizen applied for the job, especially in Blackpool where unemployment amongst the highest in the country. Any receptionist opening would have the local Job Centre sending over at least 500 people to interview 3 - NO UK business will EVER ask for Western Union payment for any reason, that's always the sign of a Nigerian job scam 4 - ONLY the General Manager of a hotel would be making anywhere near 4000 pounds/month. A receptionist would pay 1200/month MAXIMUM 5 - there is NO company named Norbreck Castle on the Home Office Register of Sponsors so they cannot employ anyone from outside the EU 6 - Here is the REAL Norbreck Castle phone number. I just called and they have NO Patrick Benedict working there and are not recruiting ANY staff as they have no vacancies http://www.britanniahotels.com/hotels/norbreck-castle 7 - The ONLY way the hotel recruits is through the Brittania Hotels corporate recruitment site http://www.britanniahotels.com/recruitment If you did not apply through that site you did not apply through this hotel 8 - Highfield House is in NO way connected with Norbreck. They are owned by competitors. Highfield is owned by Folio Hotels, Norbreck by Brittania Hotels Whatever you do, DO NOT send any money or personal details. If a company is sponsoring you THEY have to apply for the Certificate of Sponsorship and pay for it, NOT the employee. And the ONLY way to "process" your visa is through the British embassy in YOUR country, it cannot be done by anyone in the UK Cut off all contact and report this to the real Norbreck hotel so they can get their security team involved

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