Watkins Recruitment
Complaint 24348 Details

  • Date Occurred: 10/05/2013
  • Reported Damages: $0.00

The complaint is against an online dating profile

The complaint is a listing fraud posted on public forums or sites against an anonymous entity

The complaint is mobile text spam or smishing related against an anonymous entity

The company or person contact no longer exists

International boundaries

I submitted a resume to a job posted on craigslist. I received the following email:

"We would like to thank you for sending your resume to Watkins Recruitment & Partners. After reviewing your initial credentials, I think you could possibly be a great fit for our company.

Our Human Resource manager would like to schedule an interview with you before she leaves for vacation early next week. You need to complete the pre-interview screening before we can schedule an interview, which can be found at http://work-at-watkins.info or the career link on our homepage. Your applicant code is 227383.

Please write down your code, as that is the only way you can gain access to your application and employee profile. Once you complete your screening someone from HR will contact you within 72 hours to schedule an interview.

Respectfully
Norman Bletchwill
Watkins Recruitment & Partners"

I followed the email to the site and tried to reply to the email to notify "Norman" I had completed the pre-screening. I received an email back stating the email didn't exist, then I started looking. The website he provides "http://www.watkins-recruitment.com" features a privacy policy and contact page that says "Under Construction".

Clearly a scam.

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  • Kay
  • Kay SBID #72fcba3fd8
  • Posted 10/06/2013
  • I received a very similar email today, although it was a different name. I think this "recruitment company" might be related to some of the Patterson Recruitment scams I've seen on here because their email looked exactly like the one I received, even with the HR lady leaving on vacation. I was responding to a posting about an Eyecare Receptionist position, so I sent them an email back asking about the Optometrist Office. The email I received back looked like this:

    Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

    [email protected]

    Technical details of permanent failure:
    Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 No Such User Here (state 14).
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  • trickedagain
  • trickedagain SBID #58c6507ea9
  • Posted 10/16/2013
  • Well I got the same email today, but from a Gary Thompson. Let's just say this - their Human Resource person must get a hell of a lot of vacation time. I really appreciate this website. The last time this happened with a job I found on Craigslist's employment link, I had to turn over the information to the Secret Service. Be very careful. I should have learned from my first mistake.
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  • Complaint Against Watkins Recruitment
  • Complaints Filed: 2
  • Reported Damages: $0.00
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