Job advertisement in Cameroon

[Miro]

I recently had knowledge of a new (to me) scam.
Someone in Cameroon, posing as a responsable person from a important construction company (in 1 case based in South Africa, the other in Egypt), placed job advertisements in several websites in Portugal (similar ones were found in other countries, always in their native languages), offering a wide range of jobs in Cameroon: secretaries, computer technicians, cooks, translaters, drivers, communications experts, construction workers, etc.
Their offer included excellent pay (between €100 to €1000/day!), housing, health insurance, etc.
The candidates had to send them copies of their passport and sign the contract (with headers similar with the real companies) they sent by e-mail.
What tiped me off was:
- very high salaries;
- wide range of professions;
- use of free webmail services (Yahoo/Hotmail);
- Phone and fax numbers were cameroon mobile phones;
- and the fact that, after the candidate is "accepted", he has to pay the first 2 months of lodging. Only after this will the "candidate" receive his plane ticket. A real company, in such situation, always provides for acomodation.
Obviously, the scam is to get the hundreds of Euros (or Dollars) from the victim, after they get his identification, copy of documents, adress, phone, etc.

(Administrators/Moderators: As this is my first Post here, be free to move it a more conveniente location. And forget any mistakes I might have written) :-)

[mysteryquest]

Please post the email address, telephone number and any website the scammer was using.

[Miro]

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Company: The Arab Contractors – Osman Ahmed Osman & Co (on the headers of the documents) and "The Arab Contractors Cameroon Ltd" (on the footer)
Adress: 837, Rue de l’independence Immeuble Stamatiades, BP 11306 Yaonde, Cameroon
Contacts: Phone 23794897747 (wich is a mobile) and e-mail edge_contractors@yahoo.com
Accomodation provider: Limbe Guest House Ltd
Adress: 12 Avenue Doun Beach Limbe
Contacts: Phone 23798084633, fax 23798084632 (both mobiles) and e-mail info@limbeguesthouse.com
website: www.limbeguesthouse.com

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Company: TRENCON
Recruiting officer: Albert Peters
Contacts: Phone 0023774931917 (this is a mobile), fax 0023733459876, e-mail trencon_recruiting_office@yahoo.com

[Mkholood2in]

Originally Posted by Miro

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Company: The Arab Contractors – Osman Ahmed Osman & Co (on the headers of the documents) and "The Arab Contractors Cameroon Ltd" (on the footer)
Adress: 837, Rue de l’independence Immeuble Stamatiades, BP 11306 Yaonde, Cameroon
Contacts: Phone 23794897747 (wich is a mobile) and e-mail edge_contractors@yahoo.com
Accomodation provider: Limbe Guest House Ltd
Adress: 12 Avenue Doun Beach Limbe
Contacts: Phone 23798084633, fax 23798084632 (both mobiles) and e-mail info@limbeguesthouse.com
website: www.limbeguesthouse.com

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Company: TRENCON
Recruiting officer: Albert Peters
Contacts: Phone 0023774931917 (this is a mobile), fax 0023733459876, e-mail trencon_recruiting_office@yahoo.com

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I assure you that what you received is fake job.I base my assumption because of two reasons:
1- Arab Contractors Osman Ahmed Osman is one of the leading companies main office based in Eygept & have many offices in the arab world as well as word wide.Such Acompany does't contact persons for affording jobs.It might post it's need for aparticular job through mass media.And ordinarily persons
contact such acompany not the opposite.
2-The salary you thing for jobs at this com.will not touch the limits of 1000$
& this is based on where the job is being established.And I don't think this com.afford such salaries especially if this work locate in Cameroon where they can fill thousands of cheep workers there??

[Miro]

I know its a scam, I knew it for the reasons I said in my first post:
"- very high salaries;
- wide range of professions;
- use of free webmail services (Yahoo/Hotmail);
- Phone and fax numbers were cameroon mobile phones;
- and the fact that, after the candidate is "accepted", he has to pay the first 2 months of lodging. Only after this will the "candidate" receive his plane ticket. A real company, in such situation, always provides for acomodation."

Some of the jobs they were advertising could be filled locally paying just a few hundred dollars.

I checked the real companies web pages and the phones and email are completely diferent. Besides, TRENCON only works in South Africa.

But the scammers post this job adverts in many websites where people can advert for free, and people who are unemployed might believe it and lose their (already) little money. And they do it in many different countries.