"My Painful Experiences with 2 Job Scammers"

I sent my CV to their email address
and they said they would be conducting an online test for me. They sent
me the questions and the questions were quite impressive...as
in...looked like real job test questions to me. When I mailed my answers
to them they replied that I had passed and was going to get the
job....but I would need to pay N1,000 for something. I can't remember if
it was acceptance fee or training fee, but they wanted me to pay that
cash to proceed with them. When I told my Dad about it, he told me to
forget it that it was a scam...but with the advert on Newspaper, the
impressive job test though online, I just felt like going ahead so I
actually travelled from Sapele to Benin to pay into their account in
First Atlantic Bank...a Bank that existed at that time. I think this
also got me...as in, if they were fake, how would they have a bank
account and their name is also similar to the name of the Bank. Maybe it
was a subsidiary or related firm to the Bank.... I was really thinking
like an employment market JJC.
After I made the
payment, training started. Online of course. It was one funny kind of
PowerPoint slide like this. Something anybody could have copied and
pasted from the Internet.
Well, I was the one looking for a
job so I downloaded the training and went through it. By the way, I
think I had started applying for bank jobs at this time. I wrote GTB,
Oceanic, Intercontinental, First Bank, in fact I think it's only
Nigerian Police Force Micro-Finance Bank test that I didn't write and it
was probably because I didn't know such a bank existed.
Well,
back to the story. After the training, they opened an email address for
me and told me something strange. Around this time my Dad asked me to
find out from them where their office was. As an obedient son I did and
guess what their reply was? They said I did not need to bother about
that and that it was an online job. They said I would never have need to
work from their office. This time, the tone of their reply was quite harsh. Hmmm! My eyes started getting clearer.
But
there was something quite shocking that I saw. They sent me a picture
of a youth corps member standing beside a banner with an advert on it.
They said they wanted me to print out a banner like that and put my email
address on it. It was something like when people respond to that advert
via my email, I would send their account number to them and after
people pay into their account, they would give me a percentage of what
they pay.
Kai! The first thing that came to my mind was "it is good to listen to your Father".
My
brother and sister, at this point I did not need any prophet or Angel
to tell me anything. I decided to continue writing bank tests.
I
have written this true life story of mine to inform you and also help
somebody who may need it. If there is anyway such scammers can be
tracked down and prosecuted that will be great too.
I will
tell you my second experience soon. It was more painful. It was around
2016/ 2017. Please buy 2 handkerchiefs. One for you and one for me. We
would need it. Haha!
.......to be continued.
What an experience that one would not want to repeat.
ReplyDeleteYou're very right Sir. Sometimes the experience of others can be a very good teacher of what you don't need to experience again. Thanks a lot for your comment'
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