Recruitment Fraud

It has come to our attention that unscrupulous individuals are contacting people offering fictious and false employment opportunities in Hindustan Zinc Limited, often fraudulently utilising its name, logo, stationery and signatures. We are taking this matter extremely seriously, and we are currently working with the law enforcement authorities to identify perpetrators of this scheme. By making you aware of existence of such schemes, we hope to avoid and ultimately stop victims falling for this scam. We would like to clarify that Hindustan Zinc Limited does not engage in providing unsolicited employment offers.

What is Recruitment Fraud?

Recruitment fraud is a sophisticated fraud offering fictitious job opportunities. This type of fraud is done through online services such as bogus websites, or through unsolicited mails claiming to be from Hindustan Zinc Limited, or under its name and logo. These emails generally request recipients to provide personal information and ultimately payments to progress false applications against fictious job vacancies.

How to identify Recruitment Fraud

The perpetrators will often ask recipients to complete bogus recruitment documentations, such as application forms, terms and conditions of employment or visa forms. The Hindustan Zinc name or logo is often featured on the documentation without authority.

There is an immediate request for providing personal information such as address, date of birth, passport details, bank details etc.

Candidates are requested to contact other companies/individuals such as lawyers, bank officials, travel agencies, courier companies, visa immigration/processing agencies

The perpetrators frequently use mobile or platform telephone numbers instead of official company numbers.

The perpetrators may even offer to pay a large percentage of the fees requested and ask the candidate to pay the remaining amount.

There is an insistence on urgency.

What should I do?

DO

To report a suspected fraud, contact hr.udr@vedanta.co.in

• Save messages from the perpetrator for further investigation if necessary
• Include the URLs of any websites which you believe to be bogus or fraudulent together with as much supporting information of the correspondence you have had with the perpetrators of the fraud.
• We would advise you to contact your local police and provide them with all information you may have from the senders.

DO NOT

• Respond to unsolicited business propositions and/or offers of employment from people with whom you are unfamiliar.
• Disclose your personal or financial details to anyone you do not know.
• Send any money. Our company does not seek money transfers or payments from any applicant to secure a job, either as an employee or as a contractor.
• Engage in further communications and find exact details, if you believe the communications may be fraudulent.

Please note that HZL does not accept any liability towards the representation made in any such fraudulent communication or its consequences, and such fraudulent communication shall not be treated as any kind of offer or representation made by HZL or Affiliates.

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