Indicators to check if an email from an employer/recruiter is a fraud/scam:
- If you have not heard the name of the company before, search on Yahoo, Google or MSN to see if the company has a genuine website.
- Even if it has a website, check if other people have reported that the employer has been involved in job scams previously.
- If the mail offers a job without a face to face interview
- If the mail offers you a job you have not applied for
- If the mail asks for your personal, non-work related information such as credit card numbers or bank information over phone or email
- If the mailer asks for money-transfers, or payment for any employment/recruitment related purpose, such as immigration and visa processing, travel etc..
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If the mailer has used free email IDs to contact you or as 'reply to' email IDs. For example, if you get a job offer from XYZ Petroleum Company, and their email ID is
xyzpetroleum @ gmail.com or xyzpetroleum @ yahoo.com then it is most probably a fake company. Real companies use their own domain name on their email, and do not use free email providers. - If the 'reply to' email ID is different from the 'from' email ID
- If the contact telephone numbers are mobile phone numbers only, and no landline numbers are given
- If the mail mentions that Naukri.com/Monster.com etc. are their recruitment partner, or labor consultant or employment partner
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