Causing Much Distrust Among Candidates When Sending Course Invoices for Them to Pay, We Resolved to Investigate the Alleged Job Openings.
Not long ago, Click Oil and Gas and other widely circulated media published alleged job openings in the oil and gas sector, with recruiters claiming to be representatives of Energy Petroleum. It was a LinkedIn post announcing calls for professionals from various segments and professional backgrounds.
They claimed that people had to pay for a specific course to work at the company, and they responded by sending a payment order in the form of an invoice for a “supposed qualification school for these courses.”
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Since the post was on a professional social network and the “scammer” managed to name their profile after the company, many fell for the scam. Fortunately, it was discovered, and some had already fallen for it; see how.
- Email with a name that is not of a proprietary domain – although it is a common practice for recruiters to use Outlook, Gmail, Hotmail, and other free servers to avoid compromising the company’s servers, the scammers used the excuse that since they had just arrived in Brazil, they didn’t have an official email yet.
- No CNPJ found – any company eventually settling in the country is issued a CNPJ for operations. When questioned in the same way, it said it hadn’t resolved these bureaucratic issues yet.
- They tried to use the names of renowned recruiters in the Brazilian oil and gas market to gain candidates’ trust – Surprisingly, they claimed that CEPEM (CENTER FOR BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY) was in negotiations with them to assist in recruitment.
The Discovery of the Scam
Even though we published these job openings (WHICH WE REGRET VERY MUCH), we contacted CEPEM to verify the truth of the information. They called the official headquarters of Energy Petroleum in the United States, and they stated that there are no operations underway in Brazil. When questioned again publicly by us and others after the scam was uncovered, the scammers deleted the profile and removed all posts.


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