Beware Of The Kerry Foods Scam

Be aware that scammers are operating a money mule employment scam currently through kerryfoods.net. They have stolen the identity of the legitimate company in which the real website is www.kerry.com.

The fake website at kerryfoods.net was just registered on 5/7/2015 for 1 year and was also operating through kerrynutrition.net which was registered for 1 year on 3/9/2015. The registrar is in China and are hosted in the Ukraine.

Below is a screenshot of the website which you will notice, is an exact spoofed replica of the legitimate company’s website.

The “Job” offer is via email correspondence and is in response to an apparent help wanted ad and reply with the ad title in the subject : xxxx replied to you “Kitchen hand and dishwasher” job and also Re: xxx replied to your ad “Cleaners wanted” so these “jobs” may be posted on various job boards and/or perhaps Craigslist.

Here’s a copy of the email responses from the scammers:

Kerry Foods <kerrysgroup@gmail.com>

My name is Nikolas from Kerry Group HR department. We are a public food company headquartered in Ireland.

Our established clients are restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, convenience stores and food processing factories.
We supply nutrition systems and functional ingredients and actives for the global food and beverage markets.

In order to reduce the employee costs and provide fast and conveninet payment options to our customers, all
our sales are processed directly by our Order Assistants. We have also developed a professional network,
providing skilled and unskilled kitchen personnel rent services for our customers.

Therefore we currently have the following openings in Melbourne:

1. Order Assistant
– Part time Contract – 3 hours/day (Mo-Fri) – 15 hours/week
– Base Salary $2450 / month, PLUS 11% commission from orders paid daily
– Requirements: Laptop or (Tablet PC / Smartphone) with internet connection.
An account with any local bank for receiving our customers payments.
– Main Tasks: processing the payments made by our local customers, order reports and confirmations.

2. Kitchen Hand & Dishwasher
– Part time contract – 4 hours/day (Mo-Fri) – 20 hours/week.
– Salary $15 / hour (paid monthly according to the timetable)
– Requirements: minimum 6 months experience in restaurants / caffes
– Main Tasks: assisting the chef, food preparation, dishwashing, cleaning.

Both positions are entry level, and they do not require any special qualifications. We provide
full start up training and complete instructions before start.

If you would like to apply for one of the available positions let me know to send you the complete
job description and details.

Regards,
Nikolas Markovic

HR Director
Kerry Group Australia

Regional Distribution Center
Perth, 9 Mackay St
Kewdale WA 6105

http://kerryfoods.net/

Headquarters
Kerry Group Ireland
Prince’s Street
Tralee, Co. Kerry

Kerry Foods Ukraine
Parus Business Centre
Mechnikova str. 2A
Kiev, Ukraine 01004

and also this email:

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My name is Nikolas from Kerry Nutrition HR department. We are an international supplier of nutrition
systems and functional ingredients & actives for the global food and beverage markets.

Our clients are restaurants, hotels, resorts and food processing factorys, and we have developed
a professional network, providing cleaning services for our customers.

Also, in order to provide fast and conveninet payment options to our customers, all our sales are
processed directly by our regional representatives.

Therefore we currently have the following openings in Melbourne:

1. Professional cleaner (commercial and residential)
– Part time contract 3 hours / day (Mo – Fri) – 15 hours/week.
– 2 months contract
– Salary $19 / hour (paid weekly according to the timetable)

2. Regional representative at order processing
– Part time 3 hours / day (Mo – Fri) – 15 hours/week (flexible working hours)
– 4 months contract
– Salary $525 / week (Fixed base) PLUS 11% commission from orders

Both positions are basic level, and they do not require any special qualifications. We provide start up
training and complete instructions before start.

If you would like to apply for one of the available positions let me know to send you the complete
job description and details.

Regards,
Nikolas Markovic

HR Director
Kerry Group Australia
Pulkovskoye Shosse 9
St Petersburg – 196240
(+7) 812 309 2549

The Employment Agreement

Here is a copy of the “part time work agreement” they send applicants as a PDF document:

PART-TIME WORK AGREEMENTIndustrial Relations Act 1996 – s. 76Modern Award (MA 000083 – Commercial Sales Award 2010)

KERRY GROUP INC.

1. Employment and Parties:

Name of Employer: Kerry Group Australia – Perth, 9 Mackay St, Kewdale WA 6105

Employer’s headquarters: Parus Business Centre, Mechnikova str. 2A, Kiev, Ukraine 01004

2. Duties (Order Assistant):

Job Classification: Processing the payments made by Australian customers

Hours to be Worked: Flexible working schedule, up to 4 hours / day (Monday to Friday)

Employee has been hired to perform the following duties or to fill the following position:

– Confirm orders and the payments received from the company’s customers

– Process the payments received according to the instructions sent by the Customer Support Manager

– Send basic reports for the orders processed

3. Compensation: Employer shall compensate Employee at the rate of:

Fixed Salary: $ 2450 (two thousand four hundred fifty) per month – paid fortnightly

Other Incomes: commission of payments processed – 11% (eleven percent) – paid on a daily basis

4. Term of the Agreement:

Date of Commencement of Agreement: May 27, 2015

Date of Termination of Agreement: September 26, 2015

The employment may be terminated at any time with or without cause either by the Employer or by the

Employee, as long as all the orders received have been processed.

5. Applicable right and resolution of disputes. All dissents, disputes and contraventions, which can

arise between the Parties in relation to the conclusion, execution and avoidance of the present Agreement,

are subject to the admittance by negotiation. In a case the Parties have not achieved consent during negotiation

the dispute is subject to consideration in the order stipulated by the rules of the Sydney Court of International

Arbitration, and the awards judgments may be brought to any authorized court.

The employer, Kerry Group Australia will pay all the income and salary associated taxes directly. This agreement

entitles the employee to work on a part-time basis subject to the conditions set out herein. Otherwise, the provisions

of the relevant industrial instrument and industrial legislation of Australia are to be observed.

(employee’s signature) (date)

( employer’s authorised representative’s name) (signature)

Note: Original to be retained by employer. Copy to be supplied to employee. Copy to be forwarded to the Industrial Registrar,

GPO Box 3670, Sydney NSW 2001 by mail or by facsimile to (02) 9258 0058, not later than one month after this

UPDATE 10/27/15

It seems ole Nikolas Markovic is still at it trying to lure unsuspecting job seekers into his money mule scam. When one website gets shut down for fraud, he just creates a new one. Since this story was originally posted in June, him and/or his partners in crime has created at least 2 other fake sites to run this scam: kerrysgroup.net and is currently using kerrygroup.cc!

The legitimate REAL Kerry Foods business websites are www.kerrygroup.com and www.kerry.com.

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