I recd. an Offer / Appointment letter from Limpet Oil Company, London. But they advised to contact their nominated Agent for getting Work Permit, Visa etc. As advised, inetially I have to spend for that and latter it will be Reimbushed. I failed to understand the Genuinity of thi case.
Please advise me what to do.
Almost certainly fake.
See also
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090919152349AAnwc40
Right now Britain is in the grip of a severe recession. There are very few jobs going at all.
On top of which British law frowns severely at money for visa setups.
The only way to go about getting a visa for the UK is to visit a UK embassy in your own country. Anything else is a scam.
Sorry, but this is almost certainly a complete fake.
They also have no online presence (no websites, stock listings, news reports) whatsoever other than questions on Yahoo Answers asking if they are a real company.
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It’s a scam. There is no company of that name registered in the UK and there is no job.
It is a fake job scam designed to get you to pay a fee for visa documentation. If you pay, they will ask for another fee and another and so it goes on until you realise that you are being scammed or you run out of money. You will never get a visa and there is no job.
UK companies have to licenced by the Home Office to offer jobs to on EU nationals. The majority of these jobs are very highly skilled and you need a minimum of degree level education to be considered. This job could be filled by an EU national so the employer would be unable to get a visa for you. You would never be employed without being interviewed first.
If a company is offering to sponsor you, they will make the application for your visa. You should not have to do anything other than attend a Visa Application Centre for your fingerprints and photograph to be taken. It should cost you nothing as the UK sponsor always pays the visa fees and deals direct with the UK immigration service.
There are a lot of fake job scams around but they all have certain things in common, here are a few.
Telephone nos beginning with +4470 are used in scams. They give the impression you are dealing with a UK company, you are not. These numbers are redirectable anywhere in the world.
Free email addresses. No reputable or legitimate UK company would use hotmail, yahoo, gmail, ymail, live.com or any other free email address.
Any mention of putting you in touch with an agency or lawyer to process work documentation. It is always handled direct between the UK company and UK immigration, never by an agency or a lawyer.
Any contract offer exceeding two years. Your visa will only be issued for two years, therefore a contract cannot be offered for longer than that.
Any mention of sending any money for any reason by Western Union. No UK company would ask you to send money this way as they all have bank accounts. WU payments are irretrievable and untraceable.
Any stranger asking you to use Western Union or MoneyGram to send money is 100% GUARANTEED to be a scam.
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It is totally fake.
If you have not applied for a job, how they can offer the job ?
After your acceptance, they will ask money for processing your visa application etc. Once you pay, you will not get any reply and the money paid by you is lost.
If you have excess money, please donate for any charity of your choice.
Please don’t get yourself trapped and loose your money.
Personal knowledge with these type of offer letters
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