5 Ways to Identify Fraudulent Recruitment Arrangement

“From: “NNPC Oil and Gas” <nnpcrecruitingportal@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 9, 2014 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: APPLICATION AS A GRADUATE TRAINEE
To: “*********” <******@gmail.com>
Cc:

Dear Applicant,

Your resume and request application has been observed, processed and you have been stated for listing and recruitment. Contact Dr Chris Oke, our Human Resource Manager on 08163771269 for the purchase of recruitment form, information and interview details. Be duely notified that job training is only stated in Abuja and applicants from other states will be asked to relocate to Abuja throughout the period of the training.

Any form of indiscipline is not tolerated in this recruitment process. Also management will not be held responsible for disapproval of application due to inability to relocate to Abuja. An agreement will be signed in your recruitment form when purchased for licensed authority”

I got the above from a friend who sought to know the authenticity of the email, which she received after applying to “NNPC” somewhere. Well, I replied her straight away: THIS IS FRAUD.

And that inspired this article.

HOW TO IDENTIFY A FRAUDULENT RECRUITMENT SET-UP

1, PAYMENT: Any recruitment advertisement that asks you to pay, no matter the name it is couched (processing fee, service fee etc), is 99% likely to a fraud. No serious organization will ask you to pay in the recruitment process.  Some will not expressly ask you to pay from start, but along the line, they will introduce it. This is still fraud. Run.

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2, EMAIL: When you are asked to send your application to or receive invitation from email address as gmail, yahoo, hotmail, ymail etc, be careful. Some even use some less known (but public) domains. NNPC will never use gmail address to send you invite. CBN will not do, too. No oil company will do. No bank will use gmail or yahoo to send you invite. They have their own official addresses. Some fraudsters have devised ways to find their way around this by registering domain name that looks like that of the company they want to use to defraud people. For example, GTB’s domain name is gtbank.com and so you expect an official email from GTB to be xyz@gtbank.com. Some fraudsters will register gtb.com or gtbank.com.ng and send email with xyz@gtb.com or xyz@gtbank.com.ng and some naive applicants will fall for this. A simple way to check this, if you don’t know the domain name of the company, is to google the company’s name that will lead you to the company’s website and give you idea about the emailing system of the company. For example, if you google Diamond Bank, you will be led to Diamond Bank official website, which is www.diamondbank.com, so you can tell that an authentic email from Diamond Bank should be xyz@diamondbank.com. It should be noted however that some companies, especially small to medium scale companies (SMEs) still use gmail and yahoo. But the big, established companies will not. If in doubt, ask around.

3, BAD ENGLISH: Most of these recruitment fraudsters write bad English and their emails are laden with grammatical errors. For example, in the email above is laden with incoherent sentences, just as I can see errors like “you have been stated for…”, instead of “you have been SLATED for…”. Unfortunately, many of our graduates are so challenged that they may not even be able to spot these simple errors that should give the email writer away as fraud. NNPC will not send an invite laden with grammatical errors. Some fraudsters however write good English, so this identifier may not be cast in stone.

4, POSTERS: I see some posters around that read, “30 marketers needed for immediate employment” in some odd places, printed in word document, etc. Well, this may be authentic in some cases, but truth is, most of these things are fake. So if at all you must apply for this kind of jobs, I will advise you tread carefully.

5, AGENCIES: Some companies actually genuinely outsource their recruitment. The fraudsters have capitalized on this, and sometimes, you see some some people claim to be recruitment agents for big firms. Well, if any recruitment agent asks you for payment, chance of it being a fraud is 99%. Serious companies that outsource would have paid recruitment firms the fees and an authentic agent will not ask you to pay again.

Which other one have I missed out? What is your experience with these fraudsters? Let’s hear from you.