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London, United Kingdom, January 2010 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -

In the hands of fraudsters, job search have become a nightmare for both the candidates and job sites alike. Job scams are so effective that it is today nearly impossible to catch it up until the damage is done.

Job scams are as old as jobs themselves and consequently, candidates are quite scared when they starts looking for new job. Usually, the lower and middle class who wants to make progress are always ready to take a financial risk involved in the offers of the scammers. Now, jobs scammers not anymore only target countries where the majority are living below the poverty line but also country with high economic growth.

What is job scams?

Job scams is a fake job ad circulated by fraudsters that seek to lure job seekers to give up personal data.

There are different types of scams: some of them offer a guaranteed employment within a fixed time period against a deposit of fee (also known as CV “Blasting”.) Candidates pay money to have their resumes sent to employers, but what the fraudsters do is that they spam thousands of employers and industry websites with their details. Others recruiting companies offer a money back guarantee but only few job seekers receive a refund. Some time scammers advertise a job on the behalf of a real company and they ask candidates to send money for a work visa and/or travel costs to an agent who works on their behalf.

Those criminals use free e-mail or web mail accounts such as hotmail or yahoo, but a genuine employers or agencies never use a free e-mail service, they all use their own domain name. It is easy to check a genuine e-mail address or domain name by extracting the text after the @ and add www as a prefix to test the address in a browser. If genuine it will show the web site of the company from who a person is supposed to belong to.

The question is: How to avoid these types of scams?

- First, a genuine employer or recruitment agency will never ask money for visa processing or travel costs.
- Never give your personal bank account or credit card numbers and never forward or transfer money to an employer.
- Look at the job advertisements very carefully.
- Ask yourself some relevant and pertinent questions such as: Is it the company that is directly employing?
- Find out more about the company, telephone or emails.
- Never give your social security number.
- Never agree to have funds or paychecks direct deposited to any of your accounts by an employer.
- Do not deal with any person who is not an authorized representative of a licensed agency.
- Do not pay any placement fee.
- Do not deal with training centers or travel agencies who promise overseas employment.
- Do not accept a tourist visa.
- Do not be enticed by ads or brochures requiring you to reply to a PO Box.

For latest information’s on Internet employment frauds check those Websites:
www.419legal.org
www.fraud.org
www.worldprivacyforum.org/jobscamreportpt1.html

With the tips above, we hope you won’t become an other victim of illegal recruiters. Don't fall for such offers and don't waste your money by paying such companies.
Make sure, all the time that those companies are credible and remember that: There is “no shortcut to accomplishment”.

About HostedJob Ltd:
HostedJob is a UK company which has the ability to supply Hoteliers to all overseas assignments. Specialising in International Hospitality Recruitment, their services are open to all sections of the leisure industry (e.g. hotels, luxury palaces, spa resorts, restaurants, cruise lines, airlines and other related organizations). Their objective is to assist companies in their recruitment of skilled candidates, using an extensive network of contacts to source individuals quickly and efficiently from any country worldwide and from the widest possible pool of people.

By Areej THONNATTE, Managing Director HostedJob Ltd. UK