Internet
offshore oilfield, oilrig and maritime job scams are of two types.
Web site scams and email scams. Over the years we
have collected quite a bit of information about both of
them, information that just might save you a lot of
grief.
When
consumers are victimized, many let their embarrassment
prevent them from taking appropriate action. This
is the exact attitude the cons depend on to continue
their flim flam operations. "Just ignore them
and they will go away" seems to be their business
mentality.
One
day you might get an official looking e-mail offering
you a wonderful job in some far away place. How they
got your email address is anyone's guess. But they have
it and are writing you with some fantastic offers.
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Anything out of Nigeria should
be treated with a triple dose of skepticism. This is
where a lot of the email scams originate from.
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Any type of offer that is
above normal salary ranges for this type of work
(like $20,000 to $60,000 a month) is probably a
fraud.
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No legitimate employer will
require any type of up front fee from you if they
are going to hire you.
Here are a few emails that have
been sent to us over the years that turned out to be
scams. You can use them to compare to any type of
suspicious emails you might get that contain hard to
believe offers.
Read
and Beware!
After the email scams comes the scam web
sites. Professionally laid out and using cutting edge
marketing techniques, these sites rob the unwary
consumers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars every
year with their promise of instant employment.
The biggest oil rig
job scam online website is caledonian offshore. They run full page
newspaper ads in European and third world countries.
When you contact them they will send you sales material
that looks quite authentic. Along with the application
they will want a $189 processing fee.
If you fall for it,
it will be the last hear from them. Trying to get the
authorities to do anything has been all but useless.
They are located somewhere in Panama.
Various industry
organizations as well as thousands of victims have been
complaining to the Panamanian authorities for years with
no results.
As
usual, your questions, comments, suggestions and complaints
are always welcome at Offshore
Guides.
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