I have received an appointment letter from Hotel de placio, UK. is it fraud or true?

Question

HOTEL DE PALACIO
House 268, Hughes estate, 40-49 Mustang City,
London, UK.
Mn1x 4um,
P.O .box 1466 Mustang City,
London, united kingdom ( UK )
E-mail: [e-mail]

OFFER OF APPOINTMENT / CERTIFICATE OF EMPLOYMENT


Dear: Supratim Paul,

We Have Acknowledged The receipt Of Your CV/Resume via Email,And Have Properly Examined It.
After Going Through Your CV/Resume By Our Highly Esteemed Team Of Professionals,We Are Able To Access Your Credibility And Potential.

Based On This Fact,The Board of Trustees Have Decided To Forward to You This Official Letter of Appointment/Certificate of Employment regarding the success of your Application, which we have re-processed and confirmed as perfect for the office of the Food and Beverage Manager in HOTEL DE PALACIO.

In the attachment, you will see the Official Soft Copy of your Appointment Letter of Appointment/Certificate of Employment, the Letter will give you all the details and benefits of the offer, and also it will give you the information of the LONDON TRAVELING AGENCY,UK who you will have to contact for your Work Permit and VISA.

Note: All the Hard Copies of Contract Documents has been forward on your behalf of the LONDON TRAVELING AGENCY,UK , and you must contact them with this JOB REFERENCE NO: HPLD/ 01/UK/148/07/, their contact information is,you must acquire a valid Visa/Work permit before coming to work in LONDON,UK.

LONDON TRAVELING AGENCY, UK.
ADDRESS: # 24 QUEENS LANE, DISTRICT II, MX4, LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM (UK)
E-MAIL: [e-mail]
TEL: [phone]
CONTACT PERSON: SIR JOHN BLAIRS

Contact them immediately and get your Work Permit/Visa from them, and do not fail to quote your Job Reference number when contacting them.
As soon as you finalized everything with them, do not fail to get back to us with the Receipt of any Expenses which you are going to make during the Work Permit/Visa processing, because we will be making Reimbursement of any expenses which may occur during the Work Permit/visa processing with the LONDON TRAVELING AGENCY, UK.

Also, you must understand that the Reimbursement will be made possible to you along with your 1st Month salary, and your Health & Travel Insurance Receipt will be given to you along with a Booked BRITISH AIRLINES Ticket for your own convenience and satisfaction, once you obtain the work permit/visa from the LONDON TRAVELING AGENCY, UK.

Congratulations on your success,

SIR JACK HUGHES
Managing Director / CEO
HOTEL DE PALACIO

Answer 1

Please tear the thing up I have just tried to telephone the phone number given. I get nothing there are no London numbers like that. In fact there are no UK numbers like that.
All post codes in London start with north east south or west.
Mustang city is a joke it is not in my A to Z of London.
The whole address is wrong. Nobody ever puts the word HOUSE before a number.
They Will ask you for a large sum of money for a visa and you will never hear from them again.
Sorry you are being conned, this is an attempt to steal money from you.
This has been written by somebody whose language is not English.
A person who is a sir is not going to ask you to call him, that will be left to the underlings.

Please please please tear it up. They are crooks.

Sorry wrong information.
The telephone number is not a mobile .
I take off the 44 and add a 0.
The number is now 07024 094353. in the U.K.
I have just called that number and a recorded anouncement tells me that this is not a mobile number but is a personal number that redirects to wherever the owner is and it will cost me 50 pence per minute to call it. It then puts me through ,it rings a bit and then another anouncement tells me that the telephone number you have called is swithed off please call again later. Further enquiries tell me that this is the sort of number you have that redials wherever you are so you can [pretend] to run a business on your own and yet go wherever you like [sales rep that travels the country etc.] There is no way that a reputable company [other than a one man company] would deal on this sort of number.
I would never deal with any company whose land line number and address were unknown to me.
Please throw it away, you dont have a job there.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

This is a fake.

1. There is no Hotel de Palacio in London. Try finding it on google, or a travel website, or even at http://www.yell.com
2. The address is a fake. Mustang City does not exist and I am not aware of any street name in the UK which ends in "City". This address is much more like an asian address, which is no doubt where the fraudsters are really based.
3. Neither postcode exists (you can check at http://www.royalmail.com ) and would not be valid London post codes in any case. London post codes begin N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W or NW. (8 points of the compass). Post codes in all other parts of the UK have a prefix derived from the "post town" (either the town in question or sometimes an adjacent town where the postal sorting office was located when UK post codes were defined in the late 1950s.)
4. Why would a hotel have a separate PO box? I can't think of any reason why this would make sense, and I can't think of any hotel which doesn't use its street address as its postal address.
5. "District II" does not exist and addresses of this style are not used in the UK (another indication that it's from Asia).
6. There are several mistakes in the English (not least the spelling mistake in the travel agency name).
7. BRITISH AIRLINES does not exist - it's British Airways.
8. A UK phone number starting +447 is a mobile phone - it doesn't seem very likely that you would be given this as the main number of a travel agency, unless it's Sir John Blairs' personal number ;-)
9. How many legitimate businesses do you know which use a yahoo mail address? At the very least it would indicate that it's a tiny business, more likely that it's a scam.
10. How likely is it that both the hotel manager and the contact person at the travel agent would be "Sir"? Not likely at all, in case you weren't sure.

This is a variation on the classic advance fee fraud - the idea is that you pay money to this fictitious travel agency for your visa, and then you never hear from them again.

Answer 4

Don't even e-mail them - that may be what they are waiting for! Or they want to use your identity for some illegal immigration scheme.
Firstly - I have checked the Electoral Roll, the only John Blairs listed in the Country are two guys in Stoke on Trent
The phone number given is a fake because there is no phone code starting 01702 40. I have a copy of "The Phone Book Companion" where 01702 32----- is for UE, Southend on Sea, the next given is 01702 420 ----- and that is for another area in Southend. What you are looking at is a mobile number.
192.com can find no record of a Company called The London Travelling (or Traveling) Agency nor of The Hotel de Palacio. (That's a Spanish or Portuguese word - there is a Palacio Hotel in Madeira - I've stayed there).
I have checked a Street Atlas of London - Queens Lane, London has an N10 post code.

Answer 5

scam
if you haven't applied for a job directly to them how do they know about you, how do they have your details, how can they make an assessment of your suitability for a job.

there are lots of giveaways as to why this is a scam if you know where to look
1) the address is a mess, even though UK addresses are long compared to say US & other countries this address is an obvious fake. NO british address I'm aware of uses House xxx, it would be xxx Huges Estate.
The post Code is also invalid a UK post code comprises a maximum of 7 letters
If a PO box is being used then the address is cited as PO Box XXX
Building
Town postcode
NO post office box would be cited in addition to the 'true' address
the email address is to a yahoo.co.uk address, if the hotel was big enough it would have its own url eg [e-mail]

2) they are insisting that you contact a travel agency to arrange a visa. the travel agency address has similar problems to the so called hotel, the post code is invalid, there is no distrcit II, the email address is again a yahoo.co.uk. However the real giveaway is that the phone number is a UK mobile no. if this was a reputable company they should be able to give you a phone number that starts with either a +441 or a +442

its an advance fee scam.. they want you to contact them, they will entice you into paying for documentation, a visa etc, which will no doubt mysteriously ir unexpetedly fail to arrive.

On no account make contact with them.. if you do, they will know your email is valid, that you are possibly susceptable to fraudsters, and you will get inundated with similar advance fee frauds

Answer 6

The language is all wrong and there is a spelling mistake with the word Traveling it should be Travelling. I checked the postcode on the Royal Mail website and that does not exist. There also seems to be two people that have received knighthoods at a hotel that does not exist. People that want to employ you dont want you to pay out any money before hand as they would just pay out then take it out of your first months wages not the other way around. I bet they would like you to send the money through Western Union too so there is no trace. DON'T TRUST IT!

Answer 7

Looks like a scam to me, the whole way the letter is worded sounds wrong, also the address of the hotel isn't right, the postcode isn't a London one and it has a PO Box number which again arouses suspicion, this will be a scam to get money from you, the next letter you get will probably ask you to send money for the Visa etc.
Don't do it, you will be ripped off.

Answer 8

received appointment letter hotel de placio uk fraud true

Answer 9

Its a scam there is no such place and are they asking you for money its to good to be true forget it and also there is no Mustang City I have ever heard of in London also the post code is fake so its a fake. Hotel De Placio is all in upper case this shows its not someone who writes English they must not be English the only letters that should be in upper case are the first letters.

Answer 10

It is a scam - Hotel de Palacio? does it sound English?
UK addresses aren't like that either, London post codes do not start with MN.
Don't reply to it unless you want to get ripped off