Santos Ltd. Job Opportunity Scam

Beware all - a scammer is posting ads in large city newspapers claiming to be Santos Ltd. out of Austrailia. Santos is a legitimate company and the scammer is using names of actual staff at Santos. My mother applied for a position and when they offered her a job without even doing an interview I told her to stop communication immediately. I contacted Santos Ltd. and of course they are not hiring in our city, or in any other city in the United States. Beware!

Here's a copy of just one of the emails they sent - this is one where they are making the job offer. All of the others are very similar, from the same address and use the same name. Note their insistance about using Yahoo chat - all of their other emails mentioned this too. They were more interested in getting her signed up for Yahoo chat than they were in knowing anything about her!

From: [email protected]

Subject: Santos Limited® (Getting Started )
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:02:32 +0000



After going through your application,I Petrina Coventry is satisfied that this applicant is qualified enough to join our team,I will like to put to your notice that we have decided to hire you for this position,But Mr Peter Wasow (Chief Financial Officer and Executive/Vice President) need talk to you first on phone or on the Yahoo Instant Messenger chat cause he need to explain some procedures to you which are very important.Below is the form for you to complete and email it back to us for processing of your offer letter as soon as possible.We need you to complete this form as we need to have some basic information about you in our central database system as a recognized employee of Santos Limited.We hope to receive your completed application form soonest via Email.



JOB APPLICATION FORM

1) First Name___________________________________________________

2) Middle Name__________________________________________________

3) Last Name____________________________________________________

4) Contact Address______________________________________________

5) City ________________________________________________________

6) State_____________________________________________________

7)Zip code________________________________________________________

Mobile phone_________________________________________________

9) Work phone___________________________________________________

10)Home phone___________________________________________________

11)Phone number of whom to contact in case of emergency______________________

12)Date of Birth _________________________________________________________

13)Do you have a job? __________________________________________

14)If yes,what do you do for living?___________________________________

15)Yahoo Instant Messenger:__________________________________________(If you don't have any,then you can activate a yahoo account,activate a Yahoo Instant Messenger and add [email protected] to your friends list so that we can chat).

NOTE : Also send us a Photograph of yourself,have it attached to your reply form and also if you have any questions, do hesitate to call us on 323.647.5662.


Thanks


Petrina Coventry
Chief Human Resources Officer
BEd, PostDipHR, Master Business Ethics
Phone number : 323.647.5662


Santos Ltd
Ground Floor Santos Center
60 Flinders Street
Adelaide
South Australia 5000
GPO Box 2455
Adelaide
South Australia 5001
http://www.santos.com

This is a scam that relies on adverts in newspapers [Los Angeles Times is popular] and then getting applicants to communicate by email and Yahoo chat. They are after people willing to deposit checks in their bank accounts - the classic `money mule' scam.

They use Yahoo and Live email addresses with variations e.g. [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected]. Keep well away from these people - juts a scam.

The scam job adverts look something like this:

00578610
Description Payroll
Payroll officer Needed

Santos Limited is looking to recruit a P/T or F/T Payroll Officer for their new office for more details send your current resume to [Click Here to Email Your [Click Here to Email Your Resumé] Los Angeles Times 2010-11-08

Source - Los Angeles Times

The fake Aptitude Test looks like this

From: Santos Limited® <[email protected]>
Subject: Santos Limited® (Aptitude Test)
To: [email protected]

Dear Name,

Thanks for your response to our e-mail and below is our aptitude test.Please briefly answer the below questions to the best of your knowledge and experience as this will be used as a screening process to get you started with Santos Limited.

1. Tell me a little about yourself?


2. What do you feel has been your greatest work-related accomplishment?


3. What is your greatest strength?


4. What is your greatest weakness?


5. How do you handle stressful situations?


6. What is the toughest problem you've had to face and how did you overcome it?


7. Why are you seeking a new job?


8. Why do you want this position?


9. What make you think that you are the best person for this job?


10. What concerns you about this job?


11.Do you have any disability to the best of your knowledge?


12.Present occupation and your work schedules ?


13. We have working hours of between 8 A.M - 5 P.M and your services is only needed for 5 hours daily.Select your 5 HOURS schedules in between 8 A.M to 5 P.M as convenient for you.



Monday : (8 A.M - 5 P.M)

Tuesday : (8 A.M - 5 P.M)

Wednesday : (8 A.M - 5 P.M)

Thursday : (8 A.M - 5 P.M)

Friday : (8 A.M - 5 P.M)

Saturday : (8 A.M - 5 P.M) - 3 hours only



P.S - Your answers will be reviewed by the HR DEPARTMENT and we will get back to you under 48 hours with our final conclusion.I wish you best of luck.



Thanks

Petrina Coventry
Chief Human Resources Officer
BEd, PostDipHR, Master Business Ethics
Phone number : 323.647.5662

Hello,
the group is back with their scams.

Their new email is [email protected] and they advertised their fake job adverts appeared in New Jersey in the Star Ledger newspaper

Don't send any information to this group! They are scammers so report them to the newspaper and police

They have posted on "indeed" job website as well. Everything is exactly the same. Payroll jobs out of your home....Not so much. Beware

Whoa - the group has now switched to LA cell phone - 323 522 4733 - for their fake payroll job with Santos Limited. Looks like they are using this new cell phone number 3235224733 for other fake jobs including the driver jobs mentioned above

Don't respond to these devils

Oh yes, `Mr Seaton' the supposed CFO of Santos Limited uses the Yahoo address [email protected] to do yahoo chat with potential victims. As if a CFO of an international company would use Yahoo chat with such terrible grammar and spelling. what a scam from [email protected]