Job recruitment agency scam

Starlet

BuzzyBee77 wrote: »

Job scam is doing the rounds. Applied for data entry job advertised via Indeed and Workable Had telephone interview by recruitment agency and two days later
had email job offer and contract from hiring company. Was told job was
subject to a criminal single offence check and advised to use an online
disclosure check service and pay for express service in order to start job in
time. Long story short all three companies are fake. The recruitment agency, hiring company and disclosure checking company are all linked and using details
of a real company for ID theft of applicants details and fraud.
Reported to Action Fraud and Safer Job. They now have started another scam advertising for customer service positions and also set up another website claiming to process tax rebates.

The agency is called Madeem Recruit and have videos on YouTube
The job was for 556Clothing Ltd /Clothes & Dresses Ltd

Whenever I get approached by a recruitment agency, I always check that they're registered with REC. You may want to bookmark this:
https://www.rec.uk.com/membership/member-directory
If they're not listed on the REC directory, I wont take things further, no matter how appealing the job advert may be.

BuzzyBee77

This scam featured on Rip Off Britain on BBC1 this morning. Quite interesting that the people in the YouTube videos were actors and allegedly not aware that it was a scam. Willing to sell their souls for anything it seems!