Recruitment agencies impersonating in-house recruiters

[tinopener]

Agree.

Unless you have evidence e.g. a recording you took copious notes from and the recording to aid your memory or it was on loud speaker and your friend heard, then it's your word against the agents.

They'd tap the phone line. Simple court warrant and a quick call to M15.

[DodgyAgent]

Hi chaps, long time lurker here so sorry about the heavy first post

I was duped into giving references up front by in-house recruiter for an international bank who I now realise was an agency phishing.

I'm normally really careful about these tricks, and this was the first time in years I've been caught out. This also makes me suspect it was a concerted effort by a particular agency to catch me out. We all know the ones that would try this.

Anyway, in the first instance, be wary of these calls coming from withheld numbers, and insist you get their details instead so you can call them back.

For anyone who does get caught out, I personally see this as getting sensitive information by deception i.e. fraud, so I reported it to the Police at actionfraud.police.uk. If you do the same, make sure you report *everything* you can, especially the time of the phone call and who your phone provider is. The police are unlikely to act on a single act of phishing, but if they get a few of the same pattern then they might trace the phone calls.

If the same thing has indeed happened to anyone recently, please feel free to PM me.

I think you need to do a google search with the words "life, get one"

[original PM]

no law has been broken here at all.

Anyone can contact anyone else to ask information about someone else.

fookin goons

[fullyautomatix]

I think when you deal with agents ( recruitment and estate ), you really should think you are dealing with criminals.

In this particular instance, you were extremely stupid but on top of that you actually called the police ? I have no doubt you probably were the subject of much mirth round that station that day.

[DodgyAgent]

I think when you deal with agents ( recruitment and estate ), you really should think you are dealing with criminals.

In this particular instance, you were extremely stupid but on top of that you actually called the police ? I have no doubt you probably were the subject of much mirth round that station that day.

Harsh

[fullyautomatix]

Harsh

you are of course not dodgy like your brothers.

[kal]

Am waiting for the OP to be included in the next batch of inappropriate 999 calls along with the women who phoned the old bill because the ice cream man didn't put any hundreds and thousands on her raspberry ripple (not a euphemism!) and the bloke that rang up cause he was out of bog roll (...aah the liberation that is General )

[SueEllen]

Harsh

but fair...

[DodgyAgent]

but fair...

[EternalOptimist]

You have opened up a can of worms here, tinopener