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Work from Home FRAUD alert - Cointut

Rainandthunder
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Indeed (and no doubt other jobsites) recently posted a vacancy for several Customer Service Advisors WFH for an organisation named Cointut. Vacancy details were vague, and the position offered £13ph at FT hours for taking messages, arranging callbacks from other depts. etc.
After applying, this entity sends an interview to you via Goggle docs - at no point on the recruitment process will you speak with a human being.
Within the fortnight, you will then receive two emails within a matter of hours of each other. The first advises that you have been successful and includes a start date, and encourages you to follow the onboarding instructions which follow in the next email. These emails are from entities claiming to be Tony Cram and Amy Collins.
You are given less than a week to obtain a DBS check (if you do not have one less than 2 months old), and this is where the scam exposes itself. On this same email, there is a link for a DBS check company - or so it seems. Not only is the link misspelled, but here's what I discovered about the site you are directed to -
Scamdetecting sites detect the following -
The 'DBS' site was set up 2 weeks ago. The link is gb-disclosures.uk/Basic-Disclosure/
The registrar is Namecheap.Inc
The link has had extremely low traffic, let's hope we can keep it that way. In short, the 'DBS' site is a card-harvesting site only.
If you have good virus protection and are comfortable accessing it, you will quickly find typos, dead links and whichever DBS check you choose (from 3 options on the site itself) you are only ever directed to the Basic one. Please, please share this information.
If this were not damning enough, with regards to Cointut -
The email addresses which sent the emails to me have new, basic profiles set up on Linkedin which do not hold up to scrutiny. These names are provided above. If you do search for these names, please ensure that you only focus on the Cointut 'employees'. This is not a call to harass, but to educate.
Cointut is not registered to Companies House.
There IS a Bitcoin company named Coinut, it is uncertain if this scam entity is trying to ride on this companies coattails.
Share this information. I cannot share the screenshots that I have, however anyone comfortable with online security can uncover the same information.
After applying, this entity sends an interview to you via Goggle docs - at no point on the recruitment process will you speak with a human being.
Within the fortnight, you will then receive two emails within a matter of hours of each other. The first advises that you have been successful and includes a start date, and encourages you to follow the onboarding instructions which follow in the next email. These emails are from entities claiming to be Tony Cram and Amy Collins.
You are given less than a week to obtain a DBS check (if you do not have one less than 2 months old), and this is where the scam exposes itself. On this same email, there is a link for a DBS check company - or so it seems. Not only is the link misspelled, but here's what I discovered about the site you are directed to -
Scamdetecting sites detect the following -
The 'DBS' site was set up 2 weeks ago. The link is gb-disclosures.uk/Basic-Disclosure/
The registrar is Namecheap.Inc
The link has had extremely low traffic, let's hope we can keep it that way. In short, the 'DBS' site is a card-harvesting site only.
If you have good virus protection and are comfortable accessing it, you will quickly find typos, dead links and whichever DBS check you choose (from 3 options on the site itself) you are only ever directed to the Basic one. Please, please share this information.
If this were not damning enough, with regards to Cointut -
The email addresses which sent the emails to me have new, basic profiles set up on Linkedin which do not hold up to scrutiny. These names are provided above. If you do search for these names, please ensure that you only focus on the Cointut 'employees'. This is not a call to harass, but to educate.
Cointut is not registered to Companies House.
There IS a Bitcoin company named Coinut, it is uncertain if this scam entity is trying to ride on this companies coattails.
Share this information. I cannot share the screenshots that I have, however anyone comfortable with online security can uncover the same information.
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