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Fake SMS looks for hotel PR personnel
Unknown sources have been spreading short text messages on mobile phones under the name of renowned five-star hotels, saying the hotels want to recruit sex service providers at high salaries, and then apparently cheating the applicants of cash. Police in Shanghai, who were alerted by hotel officials, have tracked down numbers of mobile subscribers from whose handsets the messages were sent, finding that the numbers were registered by using counterfeit identity cards. Police suggest the real intention of the SMS sender is to rip off money. A public relations official of an five-star hotel, surnamed Zhu, theorized that during the job interview, the SMS sender would likely charge applicants money, as training expense or job deposit, and then vanish. While so far no one has come forward with any complaints, a Shanghai woman, surnamed Chen, received such messages for three consecutive days. Her message said a hotel was looking for full-time and part-time PR workers of both genders aged between 18 and 40; the applicants needed to be open-minded and were also promised a basic monthly salary of 10,000 (US$1,205) yuan in addition to service reward. A disguised Chen tried calling back the subscribers. A woman who claimed to be the PR manager of the hotel said they were actually recruiting sex service providers at a payment of 2,800 yuan each night, but the worker must return 800 yuan on each deal to the hotel as commission. Police advised those receiving such messages report to them immediately even as investigations still continue. |
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