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British People Only from London?
I have applied for a job in London, UK for 3 specific positions. They send me the application form to fill and send them back in 24 hours. I am wondering whether its a scam or not. Its a supermarket in London named . CESUR SUPERMARKET LONDON ADDRESS: 32, Amhurst Road, London E8 1JN,United Kingdom they are even ready to pay the plane ticket to UK.
Can you confirm whether this supermarket exists or not ? what do you think could this be a scam or just good luck ? they have sent me an application form to fill in 24 hours . it has full name, current job, signature etc.,
could anyone help me out with this matter ?
thanks in Advance
I am currently living in bangkok, Thailand and I applied for three specific target jobs those are the following;
Customer Representative
Sales Assistant
Public Relations
I forgot to mention one thing that I already have sent my CV with my picture to them . Now I am worried . I can't do anything now.
9 Answers
- 9 years agoFavorite 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.
Source(s): http://scam.com/ http://scamwarners.com/ - KittysueLv 79 years ago
This is 100% a SCAM
1 - Supermarket workers DO NOT qualify for sponsorship so NO supermarket can hire you if you are not a legal UK resident or EU/EEA citizen. This is not a highly skilled position requiring a Masters or PhD, nor would any supermarket be able to prove that they advertised the vacancy for a minimum of 4 weeks and NOT ONE EU citizen applied for the job.
2 - While there is a supermarket at that address, they are NOT hiring you. Scammers are fraudulently using their name to scam you. A single call to the real Supermarket's number will confirm they DID NOT offer you any sort of job http://www.visitlondon.com/attractions/detail/2151...
3 - if you were not either flown to the UK for a face to face interview or did not interview with the company's authorised recruitment agency in your country, then it's ALWAYS a SCAM. There is no company in the UK that hires people without interviewing you IN PERSON
4 - Here is a picture of the shop - they are a tiny, family run convenience store. They would not have a Public Relations or Customer Representative position
http://www.yell.com/b/Cesur+Supermarket-Supermarke...
5 - these criminals seem to have a lot of ads, here is just one examples of their fake job postings
http://www.mydavaojobs.com/job/2567/customer-servi...
These are Nigerian job scams, not real UK employers. You can tell because of the +4470 phone numbers they use which are used almost exclusively by Nigerian scammers
http://www.joewein.net/blog/2009/11/08/dial-44-70-...
DO NOT send any information or money and report this job posting to the site where it was posted to get it removed ASAP before someone falls for it and loses money
- Anonymous9 years ago
I have never heard of Cesur Supermarkets. If they exist, they must be a very small chain. As a non EU citizen, there is no way you could obtain a visa to work for a supermarket. It's illegal for them to arrange it.
There is high unemployment in UK. A supermarket would never pay a for a ticket to bring you to UK.
It's a cruel scam. They want your money, identity or both.
- keerokLv 79 years ago
No. British people come from the whole of Great Britain.
The Supermarket exists with that correct address. It's quite surprising to see an offer with such a short time to comply with. Your target positions aren't that high so I don't see the need for the rush. Offering the plane ticket is a giveaway. They only want to get your personal data. I smell identity theft.
If you want to go abroad to work, coordinate with the proper government agency in your locality. You will be referred to a more credible job agency and from there, it's up to you to decide.
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- ?Lv 79 years ago
You can't get a visa to work in a supermarket, a real company wouldn't even consider you. It sounds like a scam
- 9 years ago
The supermarket exists - see Google street view image below - but they have nothing to do with the "job" you've been offered. That's a scam, sorry.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Not really no, there might be people in London who do it but it's not really a popular dance over here.
- Anonymous9 years ago
Just the usual Nigerian scam merchants. We've seen it all before AND FAR TOO OFTEN
- Anonymous9 years ago
probley not