While I maintain my stand about not to search for a job on gumtree, it doesn't mean i'm accusing the website of being a scam. just that anyone can sign up for an account and start selling stuff and services, as well as offer jobs and opportunities.
Stick to JobsDB or Jobstreet, or similar.
The situation is this:
Acne was looking at ads for cars. She chanced upon this ad, which seemed like an once in a lifetime opportunity.
the dubious ad.
At first, she thought she 'wa dao jin' (direct translation: dug gold. loosely translated: struck gold. hurhur.). She proceeded to email this dubious Captain David Philip.
The way the email was written was weird. No established organisation would type in such a manner. She went on to reply Captain David anyways, sending over her resume. Being the sceptical Eyebags, I questioned her.
"How you know it's real?" she replied with a straight face, "kpo mah. nothing to do also. they never ask me for money. let's see how it goes".
Acne here has been working as a manager for a few years until recently, she got hit by the entrepreneurial bug and decided to do something on her own. The interesting job ad got her investigative juices working and it excited the hell out of her.
We waited patiently for the next reply from Captain.
Strangely, the English gets worse with each email. Aren't they from the UK?
They bothered to send a reply to inform Acne that they have received her resume and request for her to be patient while they review her job experiences.
A few days later, Acne received another email telling her the application has been successful. Below states the job scope and the pay.
As instructed, we contacted Ms. Debbie Anderson. While waiting for a reply, we checked out the REAL Royal Carribean website.
The moment the site loaded, we were very sure that this was indeed a scam. The real website was stylishly designed and uses flash and what not. The scam email did not even send Acne any forms (in PDF or MS word) for her to fill. Not to mention, the horrendous grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc mistakes. The Royal Carribean indeed has hiring partners from around the globe, but there isn't any in UK stated clearly on the Royal Carribean website. Tsk tsk.
With equally bad engrish, we received a reply from Ms. Debbie asking for Acne's particulars and she even advised her on the cost of getting a visa.
We decided we have gotten the answer to our puzzle.
To all job hungry people, please be careful!
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