I also sent a application form and resume to regina royal hotel, they say it is scam.?

Question

is the government of canada do somethng about it?

Answer 1

The problem with these types of scams is that the scam is not occurring in Canada, but really elsewhere. Many of the scammers are operating out of Nigeria, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand, and other foreign countries which do not have policies about internet fraud, or may even have government officials getting kickbacks to look the other way.

Here is how it works:

1) They create an email address on a valid mail service in North America, like gmail.com or yahoo.ca.

2) Use a mass email utility to send emails offering jobs to 100,000 people that were listed in a mailing list, or found on a website like eBay or Monster.com.

3) Some of these people are looking for jobs, so they answer the message by sending their resume.

4) The con artists get in touch with you by phone or email and tell you that the hotel is interested in hiring you, but you have to pay $125 to process the paperwork. They tell you NOT to send the money to the hotel, but instead send it to this Paypal account, or to a Western Union office, or something like that.

5) They take your money and then call you back and say there was a problem, the hotel likes you, but one of your forms was not accepted and that you will have to fill it out again, and you have to pay another $125.

6) They keep doing this until they think you have contacted the police, or they realize they will not get any more money from you, then the abandon the email address, open a new email account, and start all over again with a new set of people.

Unfortunately, it gives Canada and its hotels a bad name in the world because it makes it look like Canadians are corrupt, and yet if you actually look at the email headers, you would see they do NOT come from the actual hotels, but a made up name on some foreign email service.

Example:

I received an email recently showing "From: [e-mail]" offering cheap pharmaceuticals.

When I looked at the email headers, it says it is actually from an IP 190.100.157.241

If I go to a "whois" server and try to find that IP address, I find that the owner is actually a regional ISP from Mexico:

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OrgName:    Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional Registry

OrgID:      LACNIC

Address:    Rambla Republica de Mexico 6125

City:       Montevideo

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Internet analysts have estimated that 90% of the emails that are sent each day are spam, and until they can figure out a way to reduce this or prosecute those who are sending it, you should always follow this advice:

"...If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is..."

Answer 2

It is a scam, and definitely not based on Canada.  If you put personal information (i.e. your Social Security number) on the form, you have probably had your identity stolen.  Contact the police, your creditors and the SS office.

Answer 3

Hotels will NEVER contact you requesting that you apply for a job with them.

If you have contacted them about a job, then the replying email or letter will be genuine, but under no circumstances should anyone send personal information to someone who has contacted them offering them work in another country.

It is a scam and is nothing to do with Canada or any hotels here.  Sorry.

I hope you did not send these people your personal information such as your date of birth or your bank account number.

Answer 4

Probably not.  But there isn't a Regina Royal Hotel, and if they lied about that, and lied about the jobs, don't you think they lied about being in Canada too?  I am pretty sure if you check any phone numbers you have they tend to be from the US.  So, if you are not in Canada and they are not in Canada, what do you want the government of Canada to do?  There probably not a crime committed in Canada that the Canadian Government can do something about.  The scammers are smart that way - dealing internationally.  If you want something done you have to look to your home government and the government of the country the scamers operate from.