How to distinguish a fake job offer from a real one?

Fake job offers are a worrying occurrence. With major changes in the current economic environment, there are primarily three reasons contributing to the rise of such offers.

First, the slowdown prevented many young graduates from bagging job offers.

Second, a lot of people also lost jobs during this period of economic volatility.

And third, companies in all sectors which were earlier extremely conservative in their recruitment, have now announced their hiring plans which are eagerly awaited and anticipated.

Thus, job seekers should keep this in mind & adopt safety measures while seeking for a job

1. They shouldn't believe on every calls they receive for jobs.

2. Proper enquiry should be done before taking the next step.

3. Documents & Money shouldn't be submitted blindly.

Hi Nikhil

A good Topic.I have faced this problem once the details of which are in the appended.The points that made me fishy are

1)The mail was not from official id

2)Offer letter was given without formal interview

3)The consultant asked me to deposit money in the account for visa fees

4)The symbol of the company was a bit different.

5) I asked the local HR of the Bank in India and found out that it was fake.

The mail as received is in the appended

DEUTSCHE BANK AG (GERMANY)
Frankfurt/Main.
Germany. 
00 49 1520 791 3464
 
Dear Vikas Bhatnagar
               
                                             OFFER LETTER AND CONTRACT AGREEMENT.
With great pleasure, the management of Deutsche Bank AG Germany wish to Contact you on your successful emergence after the screening of your sent CV by the management,
base on our advert over the internet, television states for the recruitment of experienced workers.
 
Kindly note that the above employment was based on the following:
 
1. CV qualifications
2. Years of experience 
Kindly go through the following documents, sign and send the signed
Documents through email to :, career-db@live.de,
Also for further queries. Clarification regarding your  offer kindly  contact  our HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT for more guidelines  with the  contact below:
 
DR. HANS BOAR
THE HUMAN RESOURCES AND RECRUITMENT PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR
DEUTSCHE BANK AG GERMANY 
HEAD OF RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS
E-MAIL: Career_db@live.de
Phone: 00 49 1520 791 3464
 
You should also send a copy of the signed contract agreement to Our travelling agency, they will guide and help you with the processing of your visa work and resident permit papers. 
Note that we have already sent to them the hard copies of your offer letter and agreement to enable them apply for the approval of your Visa at the German immigration Services... 
The contact details of our travelling agency where you should also forward the signed agreement is as below:
 
Europe De Tour
International Visa & Work Permit  Travelling Agency.
Visa Processing Department
Dr. Peter Clement
Online Visa Information Officer For The Germany Immigration
Phone: 00 49 1522 496 3092
Emails europe-de-tour@europe.com
Kindly follow all their instructions and keep us posted with every little development regarding the processing of your travelling papers.
 

DR. HANS BOAR
DEUTSCHE BANK AG GERMANY LTD
HEAD OF RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

Be cautious . . dont jump .. look for the features :-

--- these are not from the official website of the Co. - some a HR Manager is to be contacted

--- these are written in most common style

--- you have never applied for the post - vacancancies exists for so many posts

--- extra ordinary salary and parks offered

--- may ask for processing and Visa charges, also for verification of papers

In case of doubt, visit websites like " 419 " - serch the Google

Most fake job offers come from mail ids using gmail/yahoo etc. Just ignore them.

A good debate Nikhil, Most of the cases job offers are coming through e mail. It is to check whether it is from company id or yahoo or hotmail etc. One more suggestion is that if we will broese the company name in search engines we can get the history of company including whether it blacklisted. I had done this when i got an offer from UK.

Before applying to any openings one should consider checking with the web site of the company and be proactive in asking if there are any jobs available with them, this should be also checked with the recruiter. Also ask for the procedure of the interview and submission of documents, avoid submitting to the recruiter instead submit to the company HR only. Ask the location of the interview as generally it must be in campus this validates the recruiter.