HOW TO IDENTIFY FRAUDULENT JOB ADVERTS

Have you ever received an invitation to interview for a job you never applied for and in a company you barely know?

Did you ever attend a job interview only to be asked to pay some amount for one thing or another?

In today’s world, it has become almost the norm to take advantage of and defraud earnest job seekers who are perceived to be gullible especially with the proliferation of online job listings and applications. There have been instances where after participating at the National Youth Service Corp, you receive phone calls from people claiming to have served with you and who have uncles or aunties in some big companies that are hiring, asking you to pay for some ridiculous amount to fast track it. More often than not, these are from scammers looking for people to prey on.


So this week, JobHitch shares some tips with you on how to identify fraudulent job ads based on their experience, verifying job listing on JobHitch.
Please note that this list is by no means exhaustive, so do feel free to make your contribution in the comment section.

Below are the following ways you can spot fraudulent job adverts:

1. If you are told you have to pay to get the job or be tested or to produce your offer letter or anything, chances are that you are about to be scammed. No genuine organisation or recruiter would ask for payments before they hire you for a vacancy that they have advertised, genuinely

2. If you receive an invitation to interview for a role or you are made an offer from a non-business email, it is most likely fraudulent. Genuine employers will only make such contact from potential employees from a business email address. An example of a business address is one with the company name as its domain name. E.g xxxx@jobhitch.com In this instance, jobhitch@gmail.com is not a valid business address.

3. If you receive a job offer from an organisation you did not apply to or interview or even have any discussion with the employer, stop yourself; it is not a miracle. You are about to get scammed, run!

APPLY FOR: ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS AT RAINOIL LIMITED

4. Always verify the address you have been invited to write a test or interview for a job offer. If you can neither verify that nor the contact details, it is most probably a scam

5. If a job offer hits you as suspicious, take a moment to search for it on Google to confirm if the vacancy has been advertised on the company’s website for example. If it is genuine, it will come up. But more importantly, take a step further to type the company’s name with “scam” at the end of it. If it is a scam, you will see reports from people who have been targeted by the same scam

6. Do not let yourself get enticed by the glowing testimonials advertised online of job offers where people speak of jobs where they are paid tonnes of money and work from home. Many, if not all of them are fraudulent.

7. If it looks too good to be true, it is probably is. If you are in doubt, ask for clarification! Contact the organisation for clarification or ask someone who is knowledgeable in these matters for guidance
Please be mindful of individuals who may send text messages saying that you have been referred to them by JobHitch. We have listed on our blog, jobs from verified employers and our users are encouraged to apply for any of them as they feel qualified for and will be contacted directly by the organisation to which they have applied if their applications are successful.

Tell us, what do you think?