Warning: job offer scheme
 

WARNING: job offer scheme

There is a guy from Greece trying to offer a First Officer job on a Citation Excel based in Skavsta, Sweden: three years term, US$ 5,500 per month tax-free plus lots of benefits.
The employment offer is subject to a acceptable simulator check done in Athens, Greece but they want up front cash money for the type rating in the amount of US$ 9,870.
I received the employment offer via fax and those are the names involved:

Aker Navigation Company Ltd.
12 Place de la Madeleine
Paris, France

President - John Freeman

Aviation Department - Chief Pilot Capt. Mike Griffith

After verifying with the French and the Greek Embassy I could not found anything about this company and nobody in Skavsta, Sweden, knows about a company with Citation Excel. Of course mr. Freeman did not give me any phone number to call in Sweden or even the chief pilot.
Please, be advised of anything close to this kind of job offer because they surely do it in different ways changing names and places.

Greece but they want up front cash money for the type rating in the amount of US$ 9,870.


why they want this money, a "nice" company will bond you!
you have been smart to check about this company.You can still secure some money on an escrow account, and not paying front.

Hi

I read your post and I recognise the story. An instructor of mine was a victim of that scheme a few years ago. The sequence of events is the same, as is the method.

I am surprised this man is still in activity because the fraud that my instructor was a victim occurred at least six years ago. He told us the story to prevent that the same happen to us.

The man even have a tape with sounds of aircraft to use in the telephone calls to simulate that is office is in an airport…

This is a professional that must be stopped.

it is not a "scam", You pay for a training. and what say the contract?.

it is legal to train pilots, you buy a service(look at the contract)
there is a contract resiliation?, what say the contract? nothing, so the training provider can legally keep the money and kick you your butt when you ask for your money back!


this is the questions you must ask yourself:

have you asked for a work contract?
have you notorized the contract forms?
do you have contacted an attorney?
Do you have contacted the CAA of the country about your training?
have you visited the school?
do you have a copy of the contract?
have you look at the contract resiliation? why does it say?
do you approve the contract?