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  • I am from India I have recieved an e-mail regarding job opportunity this is the mail InterContinental HOTEL London Westminster 22-28 The Broadway London SW1H 9JS. TELL: +447014234177, +447017990256 WEBSITE: www. intercontinentalhotelwestminst er.com This is to inform you that there are job vacancies for candidate outside United Kingdom who is interested to work here in London in different skills such as Primary Skill Labor, Secondary Skill Labor and Semi Skill Labor with INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL & RESORT. The hotel management seriously needs a capable and successful candidate for this newly established branch in Westminster London. Note: Candidates can apply for any of the mentioned positions below and any candidate applying for any of the higher positions must have obtained qualification and working experiences which could be relevant to the position they applied for. Competent fresher can also apply for any post of their interest in our organization. Receptionist, Security Manager, Reservation Desk, Drivers, Sales in Bar, Administrator Manager, IT Department, Account Department, Deputy Manager, Cleaning the Hotel Room, Chefs, Store Keeper, Electrical/electronics engineer , ETC. Interested Candidates are request to send their Resume/CV immediately to the vacancy department through this Email ID: [email protected] Candidates will only responsible for his/her Visa charges in his/her respective Country while the hotel management will be offer every selected candidate free Air Ticket, free accommodation, and feeding. Thanks, HR Manager. Dr. Gordon Jeff i send my resume they send me application form i filled that i send it back to them this is the second mail Dear Job Seeker, Your CV/Resume has been assessed by our Employment Relations Board and we are glad to inform you that we have found your profile relevant and hence suitable for working with our Hotel. Kindly find the attached Online Interview Questions and Job Application forms, which you are required to print it out, fill carefully, scan and email back to us with 48hours. You are also required to scan and send copies of your School Certificate, International Passport and Passport size photograph. Note that the company will apply for Visa of any selected candidates on his/her behalf as the hotel management is going to have a legal agreement with the British High Commission for Visas for our selected staff outside United Kingdom but Candidates will only responsible for his/her Visa charges in his/her respective Country while the hotel management will offer every selected candidate free Air Ticket, free accommodation, and free feeding within the first six month of arriving office. Please follow every instruction, reply to all messages and send all requested documents immediately, as we are having limited time for recruitment. You may also visit our web site at www.intercontinentalhotelwestminster.com should you want to know more of our offerings or contact us. HR Manager, Dr. Gordon Jeff. 3rd mail DEAR APPLICANT, WE RECEIVED YOUR FILLED FORMS .WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF REVIEWING AND SCREENING EXERCISE.THE MANAGEMENT SHALL GET BACK TO YOU ON THE STATUS OF YOUR APPOINTMENT WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME IF YOU ARE A FINALIST. HOTEL MANAGEMENT. I want know this is scam or not i hv send them my cv,scanned copy of application includes my address and signature in handwritten also my paasport size photo,..please tell me this is scam or not?....if this scam what would be theire next step....please help me ....will they blackmail me???

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    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.

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100% SCAM 1 -Hotel Workers are not on the Shortage Occupation List so you cannot be offered a hotel job if you are not an EU/EEA citizen. There is no work visa for hotel workers as those are not highly skilled positions experiencing a shortage of local workers 2 - NO hotel in the UK will ever offer a job to anyone they have not interviewed in person at the hotel So if you have not interviewed at the actual hotel with the HR manager, it's always going to be a scam 3 - that phone number is NOT a hotel number, it's a known Nigerian scam number http://www.joewein.net/blog/2009/11/08/dial-44-70-uk-numbers-for-international-fraudsters/ 4 - That is NOT the real website of the Intercontinental Hotel in London -- that is a fake site http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/intercontinental/en/gb/locations/overview/westminster s the REAL website with the phone number of the Intercontinental Hotel which is completely different than the number you were given 5 - If the emails are not from @IHG.com they are NOT from the Intercontinental Hotel. The real hotel would NEVER use a free Yahoo email for any reason You need to contact your local police for advise if you sent personal information and photos as your identity may have been stolen

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Under no circumstances whatever can any person from outside the European Union obtain a legal job in the hotel industry in the UK, unless it was an extremely senior position in the management of a hotel chain and they transferred from a position abroad with the same company - certainly not for entry level positions as described in that advert, all the unemployed people in the UK and the rest of the EU have priority for any vacancy. The +4470.... telephone number is a 100% cast-iron-guarantee that the "job offer" is a scam, since although it looks like it is in the UK, it can in fact be redirected anywhere in the world, and a call will probably be answered in Nigeria or another West African country. If you gave them your CV, photo, and signature, I'd guess that there is a fair likelihood that your identity will be stolen and misused for various nefarious purposes. You should report this to your local police.

younosygit

It's a scam. If you are not an EU citizen you can't do these jobs as you cannot get a visa for these occupations.

luddite

/The email soliciting application for job is a scam. No decent company will send you email advertising jobs. Moreover, companies do not have email address of job seekers. Whenever you receive such emails, do some google search. For example, if you had entered the website listed on the first email (www. intercontinentalhotelwestminst er.com) the result would have been dud. You did mistake in sending the copies of documents. Do not be surprise to receive next email saying that your application is accepted and asking you to send certain amount of money to get the visa or other authorization/clearance.

jaramogi

its a scam and you're ID has now been stolen. I'd imagine they may offer you a job and then tell you you need to pay some kind of fee to conclude. The phone number looks dodgy The address (THE Broadway is dodgy): It would only be Broadway if it was there That is a big hotel chain and the website doesnt have options to look at its other hotels. The hotel can't be found at that address on Google Maps. The hotel can't be found when walking down Broadway. The quality of photographs is very poor

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