Got a job offer? Check before you jump
Hyderabad: The latest victim of online scamsters offering jobs in leading Indian companies is the Tata Consultancy Services. After Maruti Suzuki, Hero Honda and HCL, it is the turn of TCS to issue a public communique cautioning job-seekers to be on the guard against fraudulent emails purportedly sent on their behalf.
The modus operandi of these scamsters is to send an e-mail to potential job-seekers through names resembling leading global job websites.
Usually, a letter of intent is drafted on fake letterheads of genuine companies asking a candidate to deposit a refundable amount as processing fee to a certain manager's account.
The amount could range from as low as Rs 5,000 to Rs 15,000. Though NASSCOM, the governing body of software and IT companies in India had advised companies to source candidates only from empanelled service providers whose details are maintained with a registrar of companies, several candidates in their eagerness to make it to these 'big' companies fall easy prey.
Complaining about a web address cybercrimecomplaints.com, from which a fraudulent mail was sent, a science graduate V Satyanarayana said, 'I received an email from urgentvacancies.com offering me a job with an MNC.
I had to do register and pay Rs 1,800 online. Later, I received another call asking me to make another online transaction with no charge'. However, they could not be traced.
TCS has cautioned aspirants against falling prey to emails that are either referred to or sent in the name of TCS. The company said, 'TCS does not ever send job offer letters from free internet email services like Yahoo, Rediffmail, Gmail and Hotmail and will never ask you to deposit any money for giving job offers to experienced professionals or fresh graduate trainees.
It does not appoint any agents/agency/company to make job offers on the company's behalf in lieu of money and neither will it accept any liability for the content of such mails /communication and action taken on the information in these emails.'
Many companies are updating their social networking pages warning people to be aware of fake emails, and advise them to apply only through the company's website.
News Posted: 9 October, 2013
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