Marvel Cleaning Recruitment Cleaner Job E-mail, it's a scam?

Hi, I applied for a job on the Gov website Job Search, yesterday I got this e-mail, I smell SCAM but I'm not totaly sure:
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From MARVEL CLEANING RECRUITMENT <[email protected]>

Dear applicant,


We are glad to inform you that after carefully reviewing your cv for the post of office cleaners job vacancy our company advertised, you have been selected to join our new professional office cleaners team in Central London.The two days induction and training date will start at 12.30 pm and finish 2pm on the 30th and 31st of January 2013 at The Cavendish Conference Centre, 22 Duchess Mews,W1g 9dt, London. It is five minutes walk from Oxford Circus Underground station on the Victoria,Central and Bakerloo Line. The two days training will be fully paid for and you are expected to bring your original documents like passport , birth certificate or any identity documents,proof of address,national insurance number and also your bank details for wages/salary payment.

The pay rate for your position will be £10 an hour,your shift pattern will be 5 hours a day, 5 days on and 2 days off with a lot of overtime work available, there is also full time and part time positions to choose from.We have morning shifts,(7am-12pm), ( 8am-1pm), middle shifts (12pm-5pm), (4pm-9pm) and night shifts (5pm- 10pm),(6pm-11pm), you will be paid every friday of the week. The company will issue you a uniform on the induction/training day and you will be allocated the offices to clean within Central London.You will start work on the 1st of February 2013 and will be given the full work details and your work rota on the induction/training day. It's very important to email us back with your uniform sizes comprising of shirts,trousers safety boot and also most importantly your ukash £50 payment voucher number for a standard crb [criminal record ]check to be carried out through our crb specialist agent to ensure an accurate criminal record report.The company will strictly only accept crb report done through us for security reasons due to the nature of business of various financial offices like banks and government/private office buildings you will be cleaning,no other crb done elsewhere will be accepted.

The ukash is a new safe and secure payment method that we use for effective payment for crb fees. The newsagent shops, off licence shops and mobile top up shops with paypoint,payzone or epay services can issue you a ukash voucher for £50,once you give the customer assistant £50 in cash.The ukash voucher 19 digits numbers is what we require you to email us back with for your crb payment fees and also to ensure that your job placement is still effective.The crb fees will be refunded on your next wages/salary.

The deadline for the submission by email of your uniform sizes and £50 ukash voucher numbers for your crb fees will be on Tuesday,22nd of January 2013,no work placement will be offered without any of the above and you will not be eligible to come in for the induction and training .The company will not accept any late email submission of the above due to the high volume of successful applicants. We are extremely very busy this period with the recruitment process and may not be able to respond to all your enquiries at the moment,all information will be given on the induction/training day . We look forward to welcoming you to our company.





Recruitment Department,
Marvel Cleaning Ltd,
London.
08456860435

http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=32769&p=145563#p145563

See this thread. A definite scam and it's a digrace that these are being allowed on yougov. websites.

Please report it as a fraud attempt and I'll try and find it and do the same.

I suspect that they're posting the job under a slightly different company name to hinder it being picked up, so you'll have to guide me as to where it's located. It needs to be stopped.

This is a definite scam.
- They don't have a website. Most likely the domain is registered purely for the e-mail.
- They want you to pay upfront fees by Ukash. Never send anyone you've never met money.
- Hiring you without an actual face-to-face interview. Nobody is going to do that in this times of crisis.

I would also email the site with a link to the job, just so they will know to take it down

Email address is

[email protected]

The domain is only two days old and was registered by proxy for only one year. It's a scam. Could you post the full headers of the email?

What interests me is the link to where the job appears on the government website.

When I've looked in the past companies have to have logged on using a profile and I want to be able to knock the profile out that the scammer is using and alert the site that they have scammers abusing the service.

You can't have a government organisation promoting scams, even if it's by accident. I'm aware that the service is lax, but I don't believe it should be. Give me the link and I'll deal with it.

No such company of that name is posting cleaning jobs on the DWP.GSI.GOV.UK website which is the official government website and on which only those properly registered can offer jobs.

One possible deduction is that some applicants are having their details 'misused' by someone with an official registration, but I can't investigate further without a hint as to what job was applied for. I have a suspicion but a confirming nod would be nice. If necessary I could then apply and see what happens, and I'd then have proof if the same happens to me.

This is a low value high volume scam, and it appears to be targeted at jobseekers, which tends to suggest it's someone with access to the details of people applying for jobs and, from the massive number of people sent these mails and their reports, it won't be difficult to find out the source. People just need to state what similar jobs they've applied for recently. I'm not saying it's the company, but it seems possible/likely that someone within the company is handing off details, in the form of 'sucker lists' as they know these are people most likely to be vulnerable to the scam.

The fraudulent emails/phone calls/letters can be in the name of any company - real/impersonated or completely made up, but the one standard feature is asking for an upfront payment by UKASH which immediately labels it a scam.

This is a video someone has posted about them being scammed on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmVRe_7ba4o (with some bad language at the end, so it's not suitable to view at work).

I'll collect all the names and phone numbers they're using, as anything that reduces the success of their scam will force them to back off, be more cautious or push harder. If they select the last option they'll be easier to identify, which won't be difficult once the source of their information is identified, and what they're doing is illegal and amounts to large scale organised fraud. Presumably being a small amount involved they hope to 'fly under the radar' as they clearly have access to lots of personal details.

Any job request or job offer mentioning a CRB check is a scam. The scammer is a moron.

Company names used

2trom Recruitment
Access Care home Ltd
Access Cleaners Ltd
Access Security Ltd
Accord Agency
Active security ltd
Aldo Warehouse Ltd
All Bar One Ltd
ALL SITE SERVICES LTD
Apex Cleaners Ltd
Apex Cleaning Ltd
Apex Cleaning Recruitment
Apex Security Ltd
AQ3 SECURITY UK
Asos Warehouse Ltd
Bestway Cash and Carry (scammer abusing the name of reputable company).
BLACK EAGLE SECURITY LTD
Care Work Agency UK
CARE WORK LTD
CARE WORLD LTD
Chung Ying Cash and Carry
Cornhilllit Ltd.
Cubus Security Services Ltd
Davy's Bar
Dreams Manpower Consultancy Ltd
EAGLE SECURITY LTD
EASYHOTEL, part of EASY GROUP
Effective Recruitment Agency
EURO WINE WAREHOUSE LTD
Fablous Agency
First Choice Recruitment
Fronty Agency
FUSION SECURITY LTD
fusion warehouse ltd
Good Idea Agency
Guards force security ltd
HANDY JOBS LTD
Harrow Hotel Ltd
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS (scammer abusing the name of reputable company).
HOMEWORKSERV LTD
HOSPITAL PORTERS ASSOCIATION UK
Hotel Management Services
Iban recruitment services
Imperial recruitment agency
Knight Security Ltd
Lidl warehouse ltd (fraudulent use of a real company's name by a scammer).
Links Recruitment Agency
MARRIOTT HOTELS UK (scammer abusing the name of reputable company).
Marshall Mgt Ltd
Marvel Cleaning Ltd
Netto warehouse ltd
Newface Ltd
OMEGA RECRUITMENT
Premier Inn Hotel (scammer abusing the name of reputable company).
Primetime Security Services Ltd
Reader Agency
Samsung warehouse (scammer abusing the name of reputable company).
Sole Seafood Restaurant & Bar
Superior cleaning ltd
Surtees Hotel
Travelodge Hotel (scammer abusing the name of reputable company).
Unique Recruitment
Wallmount Recruitment Agency
Zinas Recruitment

(Where these are real companies, the scammer is nothing to do with them and is impersonating them without their knowledge or permission).

Phone numbers used

02073101981
02076811154
02088075009
02088075595
02088075009
07405122208
07423824787
08000196431
08445070284
08445070289
08445089214
08450524674
08450524697
08451661649
08453009061
08453009073
08455280215
08456860435
08701205608
08701254220
08704863611
08712772058

The one feature that identifies these job offers as fraudulent is the request for a UKASH payment up front. Without further evidence any such job offer can be trashed, after reporting details here so that we can help other people avoid being scammed. Clearly they're inventing a new name for each scam 'run', so if you post the most recent name used along with the scam e-mail, it'll be more effective.

I had no idea of the scale of the scam until I began researching. It's massive.

I'll update the names used over time, but finally from the UKASH website - security advice.

http://www.ukash.com/en-GB/security-tips/

How to report a scam

If you believe that you are a victim of a scam you should contact Ukash as soon as possible and then report it to your local police (except the UK).

In the UK you should contact Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or at their website


Only use Ukash at genuine partner websites, never send code details by email or telephone

From Moray Council’s trading standards

http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_news/news_81603.html

Consumers should be aware that Ukash should only be used for making payments online at participating Ukash merchants and is not meant for person to person payments. Genuine participating Ukash merchants will never ask for payment to be made by sending voucher details over the telephone or by email.

If you disclose the Ukash number by e-mail or phone, your money is gone and stolen. Any request for you to do so makes it certain that you are dealing with a scammer.

Of course, you can't pay CRB fees by UKASH so any request to do so is a scam.

Another features is that you will appear as a 'BCC", in other words, the scammer is mass-mailing out these messages but hiding who else is being contacted.

http://help.gumtree.com/articles/General_Information/Top-online-scams?retURL=%2Fapex%2FknowledgeProduct%3Fc%3DAll&popup=false&at=Online%20scams%20to%20watch%20out%20for

CRB Check scams.
If you are applying for a job through any online portal you will find that some employers will want you to complete a CRB check. Legitimate employers will ask you to submit a completed CRB either during the interview process or at 'offer stage'. Be wary of any response asking you to send money for a CRB check before you have been interviewed.

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2012/10/asos-warehouse-preys-on-job-hu.html

Prior to the article in the Daily Mirror on 18 October, 2012, we were already working in conjunction with the police to investigate this series of incidents, as we have been since the issue was first brought to our attention, and will relentlessly continue to do so.

We've become used to friendship/romance sites being overwhelmed by scammers but I wasn't aware that the same had happened to job vacancy sites,and they have even managed to get on to government operated websites.

Some of the examples I've seen are hilarious, but they're looking for victims not employees, so no one is ever turned down.

If you receive one of these scam job offers please post the details here even if they're duplicates, after removing your personal details and e-mail address, as I'm compiling information on these scammers and will pass any evidence I get on to the police who have stated they will take action against these criminals. I'm satisfied that at least one gang is located in the UK.

New company names and phone numbers they're using will help anyone who Googles and this will reduce the money the scammers are making significantly.

These are the types of jobs they're offering: (I'm listing them as they are targeting low paid jobs with vague requirements to get the widest take up).

Bar Staff
Care Assistant
CARE & NURSING ASSISTANT
Home/Hotel Cleaner
Hospital Porter
House Keeping/ Cleaner
Kitchen Staff
LABOURER
Office Cleaner
Security Officer
Supermarket Cashier
TRAIN CLEANERS / ATTENDANTS
Waitress
Warehouse Operative
Warehouse Picker
Warehouse Picker and Packer