Asoa Construction

This 'company', with the website asoaconstruction.com, is offering jobs to people outside of the UK. It is the latest generation of a list of fake companies they have set up in the past:

Acis construction
Avard construction
Acroft construction
And now, Asoa Construction.

This company is not listed in the UK's national database of companies, companieshouse. It claims to exist since 2003 but the site is less than half a year old.

The scam here is when it comes to the visa application: they will offer to handle the visa application for you, in exchange for a small fee of course. Don't be fooled: nobody can arrange a visa application for you, this has to be done in person in the embassy of your country. When you receive an email from this company just delete and ignore it, and whatever you do, don't send them money.

As expected, they offer to arrange the visa for you.

Dear
Letter of Invitation for Interview

Thank you for your recent application for employment ref: A452-Exect. Secretary

Having considered your skills and some core values found in your application, I am pleased to inform you that you have been shortlisted and you are hereby invited to attend an interview on May 11, 2011 by 10 by 10 a.m. at the Human Resources Management Department of our Company situated at 6 Morley Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 9RA, United Kingdom.

Please bring with you to the interview the originals of all academic certificates, evidence of training courses attended, evidence of membership of professional bodies etc. that you might have. Originals will be photocopied and returned to you on the same day.

The company will provide free air ticket and accommodation to all candidates coming for interview from outside the UK as well as reimbursement of all reasonable expenses related to transportation and travel documentation where applicable once the interview process is complete. All candidates, are expected to submit a claim form (attaching receipts as appropriate), and forward to our Human Resources Department for payment processing. All claims will normally be processed by Human Resources Department within two (2) business days of receiving the claim form. Download of the claim form and more information regarding reimbursement of claims can be found on our website at: http://asoaconstruction.info/iefgn.pdf

If after the interview you are selected for employment, you will be required to commence work within one (1) week and you will be given an opportunity to negotiate your salary and working conditions. While you are here, the company will process and provide all relevant documentations that will grant you permission to work and like here legally without harrasement from the immigration authorities. Some of the benefits we offer in addition to free accommodation are listed at: http://asoaconstruction.info/benefits.html

All selected candidates coming from outside the United Kingdom and holding E.E.C, American, Canadian or Australian passports must forward scanned copies of their passport (data page only) with details of their nearest International Airports to obtain their flight tickets within 48 hours. Candidates holding passport from other countries will require the UK ENTRY CLEARANCE (VISA); obtainable from their local BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION office before they can receive their flight tickets from us.

We strongly advised all selected applicants without the E.E.C, American, Canadian or Australian passport process their travel documentation through an accredited and a UK based immigration specialist. From experience, we noticed that making an application with a UK based Immigration expert guarantees visa approval and in a timely manner too as compared with applications made directly at the local UK Embassies. It has come to our notice also that visa applications made directly at the local UK Embassies are often denied especially for job applicants from Africa, Asia, Middle East, to mention a few and when such visa applications are denied, it takes approximately ninety (90) days to re-apply or make another application and during this time, unfortunately the Company will not be patient or wait for such applicants, we usually cancel their invitations or revoke their employment offers as the case may be and recruit other qualified and eligible applicants on the list to enable us meet up with our recruitment needs.

To ensure you pass through a hassle free Visa application process to enable you attend your interview for perusal of original copies of your education/academic certificates as well as to ascertain claims on your qualifications, skills and work experience, we will suggest you contact Attorney Davis Hayes to assist you in your visa application processing. He is a renowned Immigration lawyer here in the United Kingdom and works directly with top immigration officers at the Home Office. Many indigenous and foreign establishments here have been able to secure visas without difficulties and promptly for their expatriates and new employees from different parts of the world through his effort. Ask him for guidance and assistance on how to obtain a UK visa. Contact him via this email address: [email protected]

If for any reason you will not be able to attend the interview as scheduled, please contact us at least 48 hours before the scheduled interview.

Best wishes,

Dr. GRAHAM O. SALISBURY JR
Chairperson, Selection Panel & Administrative Head
ASOA Construction Limited

And to those that are doubting, yes, the people behind interra-global.info are involved in the scam. This is the mail:

From: DAVIS HAYES LAW FIRM [mailto: [email protected]]
Sent:
To:
Subject: VISA APPLICATION DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS

Attention Client:

We are pleased to hear from you. In response to your inquiry, please find attached the Cost, forms and other requirements needed for your visa application documentation. Once you return the forms and the rest of the requirements including the processing fee, then we will submit them at the Home Office for Visa Approval. Processing is 3 - 5 working days.

Please find below the rest of the requirements:



1. Scanned copy of the data page of your valid International Passport or Travel Document.

2. Scanned copy of your recent passport sized photograph.
Please note - photographs should measure 45mm x 35mm and be:
in colour taken against a white background;
clear and of good quality and not framed or backed;
printed on normal photographic paper;
full face and without sunglasses, hat or head covering (unless it is worn for cultural or religious reasons but the face must not be covered).
3. Visa Form (download the attached vaf9 form, fill only those fields that applies to your circumstances and leave the rest intact.

4. Biometric Details. (In order to complete the biometric form, make use of an ink pad and press your fingers on it and in turn press each finger on the form).

6. Police Report, Affidavit or Certificate of Good Conduct).

7. Processing Fee: GBP £485 (VAT incl.) Request for our Bank Account details for payment).

You are required to confirm receipt of this email and the attached forms.
Please log on to http://davishayeslawfirm.interra-global.info/ for more information about our services.


Sincerely yours,

Attorney Davis Hayes

Well, this was an interesting afternoon. I got in contact with the scammers behind this, and they offered me a deal. I decided to play along for a second. These are the emails I received:

Hi Michael,

We are happy to hear from you. Please We respect you a lot. We are not threatening you and We will never do.
Please stop spoiling our work. We invest a lot into this. Please We are begging. Cooperate with us and lets work something out.
Thanks for understanding.

Attorney

Unfortunately ASOA is already spoil but we can assure you we will be able to offer something great next time but we will appreciate if you will remove posts on our previous sites and stop linking our site to old works such as acis, acroft, avard etc.
We are willing to work with you if you give us the chance. Thanks for your cooperation and understanding.

Hi Michael,

Pls lets know what it will take for you remove the all our posts in your forum. We are willing to cooperate.
Pls lets know what your decisions are. Awaiting your reply.

Davis

I pretended to be interested.

Why have you decided to continue to post our mails to the web.? We have not made any $ from this deal due to the post. Help us so we could meet your demands. Please cooperate with us. We shall abide by your instructions. Thanking you while awaiting your further instructions.

Davis

We would have made something out of this deal if not for the posts however, we believe we can still make something if the posts are removed and then we shall be able to offer you $200 and also we shall let you know about our other sites and for each site we shall also offer your something great. We know the $200 we are offering you now might be too small (reason is that we have not made anything yet on the site) but we would be able to make it up to $500 or more as we receives proceeds from the site. Thanking you for your listening hear and cooperation.

You have not replied us. Please assist us. We plead.

Here you have it, folks. A clear-cut confession from them, plus they try to bribe our members to remove posts. Let this be clear to you: we will NOT be bribed, be it for 500, 5.000 or 50.000 dollar. You can plead all you want, we will never assist you in your scams. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever. Get a bloody real job instead of deceiving and stealing from people online by abusing their dreams and hopes.

We will continue to fight you and every single other of your scammer buddys with all means available to us.

There's one little thing I should add. The site http://www.aeitc.com, AEIT Construction, also belongs to them. This is a fake company, the jobs do not exist, and everyone related to it are scammers.

If anyone has info/mails on them, feel free to post

^^ Well, I was in the process of enquiring about one of their fake jobs but you appear to have killed their fake site...
Again!