Company Representative scams, Payment Processing scams and other Employment scams.
by robin19nov Wed Jul 24, 2013 3:49 am
Hi,

This robin from India. I have received a job opening email from "Ameture Placements" through "shine.com" that there is a job opening for international candidates in Bechtel US and only international candidates are eligible to apply who has passport. If you wish to apply, send your resume to [email protected].
It did the same. i sent my resume to [email protected] and after few days i got an email from [email protected] that my resume is selected for a job in Bechtel United State. To fulfill recruitment process, i need to fill application form and personal interview form which were asking personal information such as date of birth, father name, permanent address, current address, contact number etc. In that email contact number (1 4157357155, 1 2028880172 ext. 101 )of contact person (Micheal bailey) was given. I called that number to confirm that contact detail i true. My call was received and assurance was given that email is true and authentic.
After sending requisite forms, i received another email that i was selected for the post of "finance executive" and i need to agree on contract agreement. Along with that i need to send my all original education certificates for verification and for VISA processing purpose.
I did the same. i send him scanned copy of my all education documents.Other information such a bank account, personal identity number or credit card number is being asked hence not given to him.

Now, i have checked on Bechtel website and other sites that this recruitment scheme is a scam. I tried to make contact on those numbers but nobody is picking up my phone.

I fear that my personal information and education document may be used for terrorist activities.
May please somebody give me an idea what could be the possible threat and what should i do now. I am from India and scam is happened in USA. My situation is much sever.

Kindly somebody help me.
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by vonpaso xlura Wed Jul 24, 2013 6:43 am
bechtel-us.com is an email-only domain registered by hidden one week ago for one year. Please post the emails from this fake domain with full headers so that we can kill it.

... ni los estafadores heredarán el reino de Dios. 1 Cor. 6:10
by robin19nov Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:15 am
Hi,

Please find below extract of original mail to me.
Mail 1:


Bechtel

HEAD QUARTERS: 750 9th St NW 550,
Washington, DC 20001
TEL: (1)415 735 7155


International Application And Interview Form

Thanks for submitting your resume.

Bechtel Corporation announces openings for jobs in United States. We require your esteem service in order for us to us achieve our 2013 employment prospects, towards satisfying our wide customer business interest.

We acknowledged the value and the interest you have shown to work in our company by sending your resume to us, your resume has been short listed . I am generally wishing to have you as one of our employees and hope that you will find your employment with us satisfactory.
Attached in this mail is application form, which you have to print out, fill the personal information needed on it with PEN and return it to us as attach file by email. This form will be reviewed in the office by the recruiting department.

Due to large number of Resumes received worldwide, we have decided to interview you by EMAIL. Read carefully and answer as expected. You are to prudently answer the questions attached to this mail and kindly return your answer script together with filled application form within 72 hours of this receipt email.

All instructions must be strictly adhered otherwise, cancellation may occur. Therefore be careful and answer the questions as required. Please you are advised to patiently follow our recruiting process as we proceed. We provide free accommodation, free medical and dental care to our workers, free airline ticket and a starting salary of 7500 US DOLLARS per month. Fringe benefits attached separately. Other details will be made available to you as application progresses.

NOTE: That you are eligible to submit this application form for this employment if and only if your passport is at hand and you are ready to relocate to work in the United States or our branches in other countries. We are anticipating a quick response to this form before we enter an agreement with you.

Leave FULL NAMES AND NUMBER for contact purpose.

MICHEAL BAILEY for
BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
BECHTEL GROUP, INC

Mail 2:


HEAD QUARTERS: 750 9th St NW 550,
Washington, DC 20001
TEL: (1)415 7357 155
202 8880 172 ext 101


INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYEE AGREEMENT LETTER

I'm in receipt of your mail with attached copy of Application and Interview form.

We have gone through your profile and your qualifications have made us to consider offering you the position of"FINANCE EXECUTIVE" but this position becomes official when the management have concluded. This will come up after you agree with the terms and condition of this company by signing this contract with us.

92% of International candidates derail or cancel their trip after we have sponsored them. This act is common with candidates from Asia and the Middle East. We therefore, request all candidates from this region to pay for their visa which will be reimbursed to them upon their arrival to commence duty because we cannot ascertain if the candidate will actually show up after we have sponsored them or not. Company shall provide air ticket for you to come here from your country after you must have scanned your Visa to us. This will enable the Company Immigrants Department to process your ticket to come and commence your career with us.

Moreover, you are expected to follow the company's travelling policy. So for this reason you should take care of the Visa Fee. Your readiness with the Visa Fee will enable the US Attaché and US Visa Officials to facilitate the immediate processing of your visa application forms and other travelling documents without any delay.

Finally, the Company shall open an international account for you on the base that you migrated from there to here on H1 B VISA and your salary is payable at regular payroll period by cheque. Out of the 65,000 caps for H1 B visa allocated each fiscal year, there is another 6,800 caps/slots for VIP, special or emergency candidates and this is the batch where you will be placed to enable swift and fast processing of your visa .

If you agree with the employment schedules, then you are ready to relocate and work with us. Print out this contract agreement, sign and return it along with Genuine and Valid Educational qualifications certificates scan copies. Our HR senior officials shall review all responds provided by all applicants and their educational qualification certificates before we appoint and your certificates will enable us to file immediate visa petition to the Embassy in your Country for your visa application forms to be processed FAST TRACK.

Your Appointment Letter and other details will be sent to you after an agreement has been reached.

MICHEAL BAILEY for
BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
BECHTEL GROUP, INC

Please do something to stop such fraud.

Thanks,
Robin
Last edited by robin19nov on Tue Jul 30, 2013 2:08 am, edited 1 time in total.
by Dotti Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:54 pm
Welcome Robin,

As Vonpaso stated, please post the headers from the email. They will help us to get the scammers' fake website closed down.

As to your other concerns, you do not need to be too worried. This line:

We therefore, request all candidates from this region to pay for their visa which will be reimbursed to them upon their arrival

tells us what the scammer is after. This is a straightforward advance fee scam. After you filled out some more forms, the scammer would tell you that you have to send money for the "visa." The person you send that money to would be one of the scammers, or someone who collects and forwards money to them, not to any legitimate agency. In the end, you would find that you have no job and no visa, and the scammers have disappeared with your money.

The scammers asked for your work and education information simply because they want to look like they are real employers, to better convince you to send money.

The English tells me that these scammers are not American. The phone numbers are VOIP numbers, which means the scammers could be located anywhere in the world. The specific errors in English and the format of this scam tell me that the scammers are African.

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by Dotti Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:05 pm
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Thu, 4 Jul 2013 21:56:37 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.68.234.72 with SMTP id uc8mr8242944pbc.35.1373000196440;
Thu, 04 Jul 2013 21:56:36 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
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Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:07:31 +0530
From: "Bechtel Corporation" <[email protected]>
Subject: Application and Interview Form
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 11:07:31 +0630
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.53
X-OriginatingIP: 115.242.229.148 (vikas)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=OPENWEBMAIL_ATT_0.407492731089832"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

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Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=OPENWEBMAIL_ATT_0.306026273678196"

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Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="utf-8"

HEAD QUARTERS: 750 9th St NW 550,

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by vonpaso xlura Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:53 pm
There was no website when I first saw it; it's now a frame around bechtel.com. The headers show that the email was sent from India, not from the domain, whose MX is Gmail.

... ni los estafadores heredarán el reino de Dios. 1 Cor. 6:10
by robin19nov Sun Jul 28, 2013 11:41 pm
Hi,

Can i get name and address of email sender? How can i get it. Please advise. I want file a police complaint against these people and make me at safer side to avoid misuse my document. May please advise in what cases, education documents can me misuse.

Thanks,
Robin
Last edited by robin19nov on Tue Jul 30, 2013 2:09 am, edited 1 time in total.
by vonpaso xlura Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:50 am
There's no way to tell for sure where they are. They could have hacked into a server to send their email. Even when the IP address in a scam email says they're in Africa, all we can tell is what ISP in what country they use.

Please check your outbox for the message you sent preceding this one and post the headers. We need it to kill the domain. Obfuscate your own address, of course.

... ni los estafadores heredarán el reino de Dios. 1 Cor. 6:10
by robin19nov Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:15 am
Hi,

Please find email header of reply mail in my sent box. Hope we can kill them.

.................................

Thanks,
Robin
Last edited by robin19nov on Tue Jul 30, 2013 2:09 am, edited 1 time in total.
by vonpaso xlura Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:02 am
That one's after the one you got from them. Did you get a reply to it? Or did you send an email to bechtel-us.com before July 5? Also please post the body.

... ni los estafadores heredarán el reino de Dios. 1 Cor. 6:10
by robin19nov Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:22 pm
Hi,

I have received reply from sender. Below is mentioned mail header and body text. Kindly check and advise suitable action against it.



[image: Bechtel] <http://www.bechtel.com/home.html>
HEAD QUARTERS: 750 9th St NW 550,
Washington, DC 20001
TEL: (1)202 8880 172 EXT 101

APPOINTMENT LETTER

I want to congratulate you on your Appointment. You will receive a phone
call from my office to confirm this soon.

Your resume interested us and your eligibility to work in our company has
been confirmed by the Management. So you are expected to get all your
travelling documents ready with you through the assistance of the
instructed US Immigration Attach=E9 who is working with US High Commission
in India. You can bring your family along but not more than 5 members will
be allowed.

Note: That the entire travelling documents and formalities required by you
should be obtained from the US High Commission in your Country, according
to the US Immigration Service. We have contacted the Consular General in
Delhi and they have given us their word that you will get visa approval
within days as demanded specially by us. Your file will be opened through
the office of the US Attach=E9 in the US Embassy on your behalf to fasten =
up
your visa process as soon as you meet the Embassy demand by registering
with them.

We have agreed that all the cost of the visa should be paid by you, that is
in accordance to the Contract Agreement Letter. Moreover, the Company
Management shall send your Flight Ticket when your visa is ready.
Accommodation will be arranged before you arrive. Although, the cost of
visa expenses encored on the cause of procuring your papers shall be
reimbursed within days of your arrival in the company. In line with the
Company policy on international applicants. You are expected to give us
progress update on your visa processing between now and 7 days after
receiving this appointment letter.

This Appointment letter MAYBE be revoked if you are unable to secure your
travelling documents and Visa before the date you are expected to resume
duty. Attached to this mail is your Appointment Letter.

Your monthly starting salary is 7,500 dollars tax free and your first
increase will be from 6 months of resuming your duty. Award is available
for those who show extra concern for their duty.

You have to contact the Counselor for Public Affairs, New Delhi with SIGNED
copy of your Appointment Letter and JOB REFERENCE NUMBER(
BECH/US/WH/005108/13) for confirmation of special or vip employee petition
we have submitted on your behalf in relation to US visa procedure in
US Embassy
in your country.

Counselor for Public Affairs
Contact person: Walter T. Douglas
E-mail: E-mail: [email protected]
Phone number: 0091 - 8447968806

Office Hours: 9am - 5pm
Days: Monday - Friday

Contact immediately and endeavor to update us on your successful processes
with them for liaison purpose. Respect is reciprocal, therefore, your
attitude and manner of approach should be taken into consideration to
enable speed processing of your visa documents.

MICHEAL BAILEY for
BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
BECHTEL GROUP, INC
Last edited by robin19nov on Tue Jul 30, 2013 2:06 am, edited 1 time in total.
by vonpaso xlura Tue Jul 30, 2013 1:56 am
Thanks! I think that'll work. The domain is in the process of being reported for fraud.

If that's your real email address, please delete it.

delhi-stategov.info is also fake.

... ni los estafadores heredarán el reino de Dios. 1 Cor. 6:10

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