A recruitment company claiming to sell job opportunities to third world nationals has been wound-up by the High Court in Manchester following investigations by the Companies Investigation Branch (CIB) of the Insolvency Service.
CIB’s enquiry found that Data Jobs Limited claimed to be a “Global Leader in online data entry job opportunities”, operating a web site, aimed largely at Kenyan nationals, suggesting that the company provided employment opportunities in return for a small (in UK terms) fee. However, clients were being misled as to the fact they had to qualify for the next stage of the process through an “online interview”, success in which entitled them to pay £38 to gain the necessary “tools” to obtain the jobs. These turned out to be irrelevant CDs or other information which is available free on the Internet.
The company refused to provide any evidence of its claimed sifting procedure and clients were being misled as to the “training and information materials” being supplied which were either irrelevant or, again, freely available elsewhere. The company also overcharged for post and packaging when most of the material was available by download directly onto computer.
CIB had additional concerns about the personal information collected by the company and the purposes to which that information could be put, given that there did not appear to be adequate controls in place to satisfy Data Protection legislation or provide for security of such information. Similarly, the enquiry found a lack of adequate accounting records with the bank accounts being utilised for a number of unexplained transactions.
Source: Insolvency Service
