Beware of Fake job/interview letters

Job seekers who use online job search web sites must be careful to avoid a type of job scam in which the applicant is asked to deposit money to the employer’s bank account. These are known as payment-forwarding or payment-transfer scams.

Yesterday, one of our editors got a mail, which claimed as interview letter from Tata AutoComp, Pune, Here is the content of that mail.

Ref:  “TATA GROUP INDIA  Ltd.
It is our good pleasure to inform you that your Resume has been selected for our new plant. The Company selected 32 candidates list for IT, Administration and Production Departments,& Software, as well as Company offered you to join as an Executive/Manager post in respective department. You are selected according to your resume in which Project you have worked on according to that you have been selected in Company. The Company is dealing in Electronics manufacturing business in India The Company is recruiting the candidates for new plants in  PUNE.

Your interview will held at Company Corporate office on –27th January 2010 at 11.30 in PUNE.
You will be pleased to know that Company has advise you in the selection panel that your Application can be progress to final stage. You will come to Company corporate office in PUNE. Your offer latter with Air Ticket will be send to you by courier before date of interview. The Company can be offer you as salary with benefits for this post 26,000/- to 2,50,000/- P.M. + (HRA + D.A + Conveyance and other Company benefits. The designation and Job Location will be fix by Company HRD . At time of final process. You have to come with photo-copies of all required documents.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS BY THE COMPANY HRD.
(1) Photocopies of Qualification Documents.
(2) Photo-copies of Experience Certificates (If any)
( 3) Photo-copies of Address Proof
(4) Two Passport Size Photograph

You have to deposit the (Cash) as an initial amount in favor of Company HRD. Department. For Rs. 3,565/- through any [INDIAN BANK Branch from your Home City to Company Senior HRD. Account NO -0000000080220958 – Name of  –MANORAMA SHARMA-This is refundable interview security. Your offer latter with Air tickets will be send to your Home Address by courier after receiving the confirmation of interview security deposited in  INDIAN BANK . Company will pay all the expenditure to you at the time of face-to-face meeting with you in Company. The Job profile, salary offer, and date -time of interview will be mention in your offer latter. Your offer latter will dispatch very shortly after receiving your confirmation of cash deposited in INDIAN BANK . We wish you the best of luck for the subsequent and remaining stage.

The last date of security deposited in bank -20/01/2010.

You have to give the information after deposited the security money in bank to Company HRD – direct recruitment email ID: – [email protected] Your Latter with supporting documents will be dispatch same time by courier to your postal address after recd. Your security deposited confirmation in bank. The interview process and arrangement expenditure will be pay by Company.  Lodging, traveling and local conveyance actual will be paid by Company as per bills. The candidate has to deposit the initial refundable security as mentioned by HRD. If the candidate wants to come with his parents or friends, the Company will arrange all facilities only for female candidate.
The information regarding security deposited in bank to email: – [email protected] is must with scan copy of bank deposit slip. The HRD will do the next process, regarding your latter dispatch on behalf of this information to same email ID.

Thanks
S.K.  SHRIVASTAVA – (Executive – HRD)
Tata AutoComp Systems
TACO House
Damle Path
Off Law College Road
Pune 411 004
India

Many people were cheated by such scams, and it is the high time to stop such scams. here they had given the account number and e-mail id. The cyber crime department can easily trace the account holder and thus they can trap the culprit. but the big question is How many of us are aware about it?