www.lcnrnurse.com?

Question

plz give me a detaild of the website and about the collage . i need to apply for the same as a staff nurse i do want to know is it belivable

Answer 1

This "company" looks highly dubious. A search for the domain name lcnrnurse.com currently finds but a single hit: Your question on Yahoo answers!

Their postal address / phone number as used here:

LONDON COLLEGE OF NURSING & RESEARCH,
(Your Guide to Nursing Future & Careers)
ST.MARYS COURT,THE BROADWAY,
AMERSHAM - HP7 0UT
BUCKS (U.K)
PHONE : ++44 1494 582055
FAX : ++44 1494 582020
WEB : www.lcnrnurse.com

appears to be a rented "virtual office", i.e. a mailbox provider that answers the phone in their name. Here is the mailbox provider:

HQ Executive Offices
St. Marys Court
The Broadway
Amersham
HP7 0UT(Road Map)
Buckinghamshire
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Internet: URL not known

Same street address, same fax number, phone number at the start of the same range in which LCNRNURSE.com and a couple of other companies are located. We can conclude that this "college" appears to have no offices of their own!

A search for "LONDON COLLEGE OF NURSING & RESEARCH" doesn't find any hits on this company.

A colleague of mine made a few phone calls and neither the BMA, the Royal College of Nursing, nor the Nursing and Midwifery Council have ever heard of them.

A Google search for "Sir Henry Trotman", listed as their vice chancellor on their website, yields no results. This name is also used in their domain registration.

Incidentally, their website was only created late last year (25 Nov 2005) and was only registered for a single year. It is not a .uk web address, which is a little unusual for a UK company or institution.

I have been informed that they demand a prepayment of £300 (appr. US$500) to the following bank account from job applicants:

LCNR BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS

NAME OF THE ACCOUNT: - 'LCNR'
INTERNATIONAL BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER (IBAN) NO: -GB14MIDL40252771781464.
BRANCH IDENTIFIER CODE: - MIDLGB2104V
SWIFT CODE: - MIDLGB22.
NAME OF THE BANK:'HSBC'
SORT CODE: -40-25-27.
ACCOUNT NO: - 71781464.
BRANCH: - ILFORD, ESSEX, U.K.

Note that the bank account is in the name of a four character acronym, not a full company name with "Ltd" or "Plc" to indicate a limited liability company. The Bank account is in Essex, while the company is supposed to be based in Buckinghamshire. This makes no sense at all.

I definitely would not recommend sending any money to them unless you can still confirm that this is a real company. From my research it appears that it is not. It looks like a scam.