Gumtree Job Advert Scam

Internet Scams have now become a common phenomenon. They are just about everywhere. A very striking example would be that of Gumtree. Whether it is properties, dating, competition adverts, vehicles or vacancies, Gumtree, as per common man’s knowledge is a post-free advertising site! And so the recruitment consultant at Oratory UK was quite surprised when he came across an email recently asking for bank details for job posting, which sounded weird as Gumtree was a free ad posting site.

A follow-up on this along with some careful investigation brought to light the fact that there were other scams as well “Fantastic job offer in a wonderful new hotel, just send money over so we can send your flight tickets, you are guaranteed the job. Well, you are guaranteed something.”

Now to keep yourself updated take a sneak peek into the common Internet scams recently:

Mystery Shopper Scam

Beware fake cheques or being fooled into a western union scam.

Cheque Processing at Home Scam

Due to some spurious tax reason, we need someone in your country to take in cheques for us, keep 10% and send us the rest by w-u of course, fake cheque scam. Laundering stolen cheques are also another type of scam for cheques.

Work at Home Scams

All you have to do is to look up this in Google and you will find it flooded with the results. Most of them require money up front. There are a lot many examples “Make ££££ at home ask me how?”, craft work where they promise to buy something you have to purchase to assemble for them; sadly your work is never up to scratch et cetera.

So be smart enough to stand up against the scams in the tough internet world out there and to spot the same.

There are common scams that turn up all over the internet and unfortunately, even on Gumtree.

Oratory Commerce Liverpool prefers to take the safer route and employs only legitimate companies to post vacancy adverts, ones like the Media Circus. Happy news for both though, recently, on 10th November 2010, Media Circus had been declared as a Top 10 finalist in the Most Improved Recruiter 2010 category of Jobsite’s 2010 Recruit Rank Awards (www.recruitrank.co.uk)

The best thing for Media Circus about winning the accolade from RecruitRank Awards is that they are the only accolades in the industry where both the finalists as well as the winners are chosen by the feedback from candidates and not by a panel of industry judges like others – something that is recognised as the best practice and quality customer service in recruitment agencies.