Recruitment fraudsters scam Sussex jobseekers
26 March 2015
Recruitment fraudsters have targeted Sussex jobseekers, prompting police to issue warnings particularly to young people making multiple job applications.
Thu, 26 Mar 2015
Recruitment fraudsters have targeted Sussex jobseekers, prompting police to issue warnings particularly to young people making multiple job applications.
Detective Inspector Till Sanderson of Sussex police’s Economic Crime Unit said in a statement there had recently been two cases of young people supposedly being employed by US companies and then being asked to transfer money placed in their accounts to other overseas accounts.
In one case, a Chichester man accepted an online job offer purporting to be from a promotions company in Florida and forwarded on £3.4k to an account in Turkey before his bank became suspicious.
In the other case, a Worthing woman accepted an online job as a data inputter with a supposed New York City company, and had similarly forwarded on £1.71k to an account in Ukraine before suspicions were aroused.
Sanderson said: “In both cases the people concerned thought they had been given genuine jobs and have just become suspicious later.
“It is possible that the fraudsters are exploiting the difficult job market.”
He said fraud of this nature was an international issue and while Sussex had seen such cases in the past, to get two in a week was unusual.
The statement continued to say scammers in such cases could go as far as copying a legitimate company’s website and create a similar web address to make them seem authentic.
Recruitment fraudsters have targeted Sussex jobseekers, prompting police to issue warnings particularly to young people making multiple job applications.
Detective Inspector Till Sanderson of Sussex police’s Economic Crime Unit said in a statement there had recently been two cases of young people supposedly being employed by US companies and then being asked to transfer money placed in their accounts to other overseas accounts.
In one case, a Chichester man accepted an online job offer purporting to be from a promotions company in Florida and forwarded on £3.4k to an account in Turkey before his bank became suspicious.
In the other case, a Worthing woman accepted an online job as a data inputter with a supposed New York City company, and had similarly forwarded on £1.71k to an account in Ukraine before suspicions were aroused.
Sanderson said: “In both cases the people concerned thought they had been given genuine jobs and have just become suspicious later.
“It is possible that the fraudsters are exploiting the difficult job market.”
He said fraud of this nature was an international issue and while Sussex had seen such cases in the past, to get two in a week was unusual.
The statement continued to say scammers in such cases could go as far as copying a legitimate company’s website and create a similar web address to make them seem authentic.
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