Fake Job Offers on Jobcentre Plus, Directgov Website - Fake Britain Programme

Job scams promise an exciting new career if you pay an upfront fee for training, study aids or materials for your new job.

Examples of careers offered include: author, model, inventor, mystery shopper.

Once you pay the fee, you won't get what you need to start your new career.

Before you pay any money, do an online search of the organisation and check any contract to understand what you will get for the fee.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Consumerrights/Protec...

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[edwincluck]

@dazzlebown Good point. Many of the stories that Dominic Littlewood reports are so poorly researched that the key facts are lost in the sensationalism. Mark Shortland is a nastly little runt but this was minor fraud. He swindled 80 victims out of £100 each.. £8000 total proceeds. In the great scheme of things that is peanuts.

The Crown always wants us to look at these lowly criminals rather than at the massive crimes going on in the City, mostly involving the Drug Trade.

[dashwood123]

Jobcentre staff are just as bad, they leave jobs on the system weeks after a vacancy has been filled just to make a fool out of you.

[FunnyVideoCollector]

Last year the goverment New Deal scheme got me digging mud at the cannal side for 10 weeks for that I was allowed to still claim job seekers benefits but I was listed as employed in the goverment figures.

[neephius]

Find the con,man and cut his fucking head off.

[millingpebbles1980]

Shocking. Hope this poor chap managed to get himself sorted out.

[dazzlebown]

I don't understand why they'd send a contract of employment: surely it's potential evidence against them. And why go to all that trouble when they've already operated the short con?

[Jeorney]

Another scam are job offers that are set up where your pay is less than others doing the same job. These jobs are normally sent to you by a service provider with a very tight application deadline.

[thefrecklepuny]

This is nothing new! Many fake jobs exist placed by employment agencies for example. They use them as bait to get unsuspecting jobseekers to register with them. So when the a govt minister says there are 500,000 jobs, do not believe them. This is why there needs to be a proper jobs audit to see just how many GENUINE offers there really are!

[kbdkbd99]

@kbdkbd99 It's sad what happened to him - but the story blames his loss of car and house entirely on the failed job opportunity - the video leaves the viewer with these questions unanswered.

I hope he is ok.

[kbdkbd99]

This is a really sad story. But there appear to be little holes in it which leave the viewer wondering if he has been told everything.

Firstly, we hear that the man is struggling to make ends meet - but no adequate explanation is offered why he thought it diligent to take an unpaid break of two weeks betwen jobs. I would not do so in those circumstances.

In addition, he was earning considerably less than 30k yet had a spacious house and nice car. Was he already living beyond his means ?