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Recruitment Agencies and ID Theft

  • 20-04-2010 10:57am
    #1
    onemorechance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone think that recruitment agencies are being set up for the purposes of id theft? I have been applying for jobs in UK from Reed.co.uk and the only responses I have gotten so far have been from "suspicious" agencies.

    Both agencies are registered in the UK company register, but with different addresses to where they claim to be, different cities in fact.

    Then their websites contain little or no info, no more than a home page. Both of them have a LinkedIn and Twitter profile, which they use to advertise jobs. One of them claims to have multiple years experience in Java etc, but yet they have a website generated by open office, which is as simple and basic as it is possible to be.

    Also the jobs they advertise have quite high wages, without mentioning years of experience which is somewhat unusual.

    e.g.

    http://www.omniresources.co.uk/

    http://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilgodwin

    http://twitter.com/neil_godwin

    Again, registered office is:

    [/B][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]REGISTERED OFFICE: [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]24 CORNWALL ROAD, DORCHESTER, DORSET DT1 1RX

    [/FONT]    [/FONT]    Yet they are in London:

    40 Parker Street
    London WC2B 5PG

    Whilst there could be amny reasons for the registered offices being different to the actual location, I think that the overall set up points to a scam. Does anyone else think so?

    Does anyone think these are legit?
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Comments

  • #2
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Companies registered offices are quite often nowhere near where they're based. Often the registration tends to be their lawyers/accountants address or a firm which deals specifically with providing registered addresses etc


  • #3
    onemorechance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭onemorechance


    Aside from the registered address, does the whole set up seem legit?


  • #4
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    It could just be a very small operation trying to build up a CV database. As BuffyBot says, having a registered address that's different from a day-to-day trading address is quite common. The lack of any info on their website or linkedin profile sounds like it will probably be just a waste of time, but not necessarily anything particularly dodgy.


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