Example of a fake interview letter

by Dipesh
(New Delhi)

Sir,

I wanted to know about the authenticity of this letter.

Dipesh

Thanks for your interest to work with our company; I have gone through your attached resume. As the Company Chief Recurit officer by name Mr.Daivd Mark, on behalf of the ASTON OIL AND GAS CORPORATION, United Kingdom .We generally welcome you to be one of our candidates, who will be working in our company as soon as possible. Your qualification is quite interesting and has made you eligible to work in our company.

We are having number of vacancies here in our company in which your qualification is in line with. So all you need to do now is patiently follow our recruiting procedure as we proceed further. We offers free Accommodation, free medical and dental care to our workers.

Attached to this mail is application form,Agreement Letter , and Interview Letter which you have to print out, fill it and return it back to us as an attach file via this same email. You are expected to fill you information correctly, as it will be attended officially here in the office by the concerned company officials........... Fill the form and return it back to us immediately via email.

Best regard,

Dr.David Mark,

Chief Recruit officer
ASTON OIL AND GAS CORPORATION
Telephone Number: 00448712370195
Telephone Number: 00447010032743

Response from Carl: Thanks Dipesh. You're the third person in the last month from India who has contacted me regarding this Aston Oil company and as far as I can tell, they're a fake company who don't really exist. You don't mention if you actually applied to this company or if you simply received an unsolicited email from them in which case it is undoubtedly a scam that you should delete and forget about.

To read more about my thoughts regarding this letter, please click here and also click here.

I'd be interested to see who answers the phone numbers that the letter quotes but I'm not sure I'd waste the long distance charges to find out. Besides, even if someone does answer the phone at the other end, it's still likely a scam.

Carl