A number of fraudulent activities have recently come to the attention of Anglo American where people are misrepresenting themselves as Anglo American or Anglo American employees via fraudulent websites, lotteries, and advertisements or by posing as agencies representing Anglo American.
“As a result, unsuspecting victims are led to believe that they have secured offers of employment with Anglo American. These are fraudulent and aimed at extracting either money or personal information,” said Mr Moeketsi Mofokeng from Anglo American.
He said these e-mails can look authentic by including a company logo taken from official websites and adding convincing details about your personal information taken from your social networking pages. However, these e-mails have no connection with Anglo American, nor do they use these methods as part of the recruitment process.
Mofokeng said any genuine offer of employment from Anglo American will always be preceded by a formal application and a professional selection process including face-to-face interviews. He further said communication from Anglo American will come from an email address in the following format: first name.lastname@angloamerican.com and Anglo American does not ask for bank details until the formal offers of employment have been agreed by both parties.
“Anglo American never asks for money from either job applicants or successful applicants for any purpose like visas or work permits, housing, training or personal protective equipment,” he said.
Mofokeng warned that if email comes from an email address with a different domain name than expected like mailbox.co.za, live.co.uk, workmail.co.za, infomine.com, gmail.com or hotmail.com it is fraudulent.
“If you haven’t applied for a job at Anglo American and gone through a face-to-face selection process then any job offer will be fake and if the email or job offer asks you to deposit any money into a bank account to cover any kind of fees, it will be a fraud,” he said.
Treat any suspicious emails with caution and do not respond. Mofokeng urged the public to contact them with details of your query at recruitmentfraud@angloamerican.com
Anglo American is committed to take every available step to expose these fraudsters for who they are and to put an end to their unlawful and fraudulent activities. If you have any queries please send them to recruitmentfraud@angloamerican.com.
