TheGuyFromHR:


And that's how it should be.
I'm still waiting to see if someone with experience/knowledge in fraud prevention can come and give us insight.

Lol, HR, me too dey wait.
Abi them no dey give Nigerians work in fraud prevention units?
Nobody should come for me, biko, even though I'm not fasting.

MichaelUde:


Lol, HR, me too dey wait.
Abi them no dey give Nigerians work in fraud prevention units?
Nobody should come for me, biko, even though I'm not fasting.

In a related scenario where a job advert on LinkedIn specifically states British passport holder, can that be classed as discrimination.

A colleague saw the attached advert and was really displeased but I wasn't surprised since I encountered quite a bit of that during my job search and they all claimed its due to Security Clearance for the jobs.

With her reaction, it now got me thinking if it's passive discrimination but I am just used to it hence my not seeing a big deal to it.

On the other hand stating it publicly saves the recruiter and applicant precious time.

fatima04:
In a related scenario where a job advert on LinkedIn specifically states British passport holder, can that be classed as discrimination.

A colleague saw the attached advert and was really displeased but I wasn't surprised since I encountered quite a bit of that during my job search and they all claimed its due to Security Clearance for the jobs.

With her reaction, it now got me thinking if it's passive discrimination but I am just used to it hence my not seeing a big deal to it.

On the other hand stating it publicly saves the recruiter and applicant precious time.

This one is interesting.
I usually see UK residents for past 3/5 years, etc. for this sort of job.
Except where it has to do with national security, that's the sort of thing where you see UK citizens only.
If this is an ordinary document controller position, then the stipulation for UK citizenship appears really strange to me.

Unless its MI5 or GCHQ and they're not saying.

MichaelUde:


Lol, HR, me too dey wait.
Abi them no dey give Nigerians work in fraud prevention units?
Nobody should come for me, biko, even though I'm not fasting.

Read somewhere there are usually limitations to the position you get in such department but who knows.

Meanwhile we are coming for you after fasting

TheGuyFromHR:


This one is interesting.
I usually see UK residents for past 3/5 years, etc. for this sort of job.
Except where it has to do with national security, that's the sort of thing where you see UK citizens only.
If this is an ordinary document controller position, then the stipulation for UK citizenship appears really strange to me.

Unless its MI5 or GCHQ and they're not saying.

Yes the job role doesn't match but then maybe it's the company.

Ralphlauren:


The key strategy for securing US visit visa as a first time applicant resident in the UK is to demonstrate recent travel history within Europe.

Unlike Nigeria, the consular officers don't really care about or ask for bank statements. What they look at is recent travel history (flipping the pages of your passport), the information provided on your online application (your job title, your gross income and detailed explanation of your job description/roles/responsibilities) and your attitude, confidence and answers provided during the interview.

People have been in the UK for 1 to 4 years and they've never bothered to visit anywhere in Europe as tourists yet they want to fly all the way to America to visit Times Square ??

In summary, apply for schengen visa and visit any European country of your choice at least once or twice. Then apply for US visa as a TOURIST with an intention to vist a city known as a tourist location. e.g. New York for 7 to 10 days.

Current students - speak to your international office and they will provide you the letter you need to apply for schengen visa. Those with part time or full time jobs - you need your payslips.

Fat account balance is not required for schengen visas. As long as your account balance equals the multiplication of the daily subsistence (i believe its around 30euros a day) and the number of days you plan to stay in Europe. E.g. you plan to visit for 5 days, all you are required to evidence in your account is minimum 150 euros. Cheap tickets are available from budget airlines especially for journeys during the week. Cheap accommodation can be sourced from the likes of booking.com and lastminute.com. Affordable travel insurance can be purchased from price comparison sites.

Its standard 2 years for Nigerians even for renewal. Ghanaians get 5 to 10 years when they renew. To the best of my knowledge, Dropbox doesn't apply in the UK.

Cc aopecy hustla SamReinvented mintyx

...

Lots of folks here previously mentioned that they got rejected for credit cards, it wasn’t given any ‘ulterior’ motive.

Someone jejely came here and said ‘I have been in the uk less than 7 months, and I got a credit card from Barclays’.

Fair game.

The same Someone was rejected by John Lewis for what was essentially a credit application.

First, Someone now played the race card , insinuating they were rejected because they were black and African.

Same Someone now wants to conflate that occurrence with GDPR and the viewing of their LinkedIn profile.

For those of us saying Someone has a good case. Question: on what basis? On discrimination based on race? Or on GDPR breach?

It will take less than 1 second for any judge worth their salt to thrash that case.

I've been in the fraud risk space for some years, though not UK specifically.

The action of the fraud officer in this case may not stand as discrimination because fraud units work with data.

Analysis must have shown that similar transactions were fraudulent in nature based on various variables like amount of credit and demographic information.

If the company proves that the LinkedIn check was backed by trend analysis of previous fraudulent transactions, discrimination won't stand.

However, for data protection.......I don't have enough information to give an opinion now..

dustydee:

I am genuienly surprised at some of the comments about your issue. Please do not be deterred and follow it up. You have a very good case and moreover what you are asking for is just an acknowledgement of wrong from them. Maybe because I have undergone GDPR training that's why it's easy for me to see the wrong here.

I am genuinely surprised at how pretty standard procedures can suddenly be given racial connotations.

Someone made an application for debt. A company feels something doesn’t add up. The company says, NO, we can’t give you this credit because it doesn’t meet our policies. Company communicates to the applicant, saying sorry. We can’t give you this. Applicant almost immediately uses their debit card to make the same purchase, from the same company. Because the smell of the fish(y) from the first instance hasn’t completely gone, company says wait a minute, just a couple of hours ago, you wanted this same thing on credit. We said no. Now the same you have suddenly come up with £800.00 to make an outright purchase.We need to investigate further. Company details their fraud unit to investigate, to prove that this person is who they say they are. Because company doesn’t want to hold funds for too long, company returns £800 to customer. This was referred to fraud unit.
The fraud unit guy enters the name provided by the customer into Google search engine. The first hit is a LinkedIn page. Fraud unit guy browses the first link. And turns off their computer.


Customer (who uses LinkedIn Premium) now sees that Company employee had looked them up. Customer now claims they were refused because they were black? And African? Customer now says Company had no authority to ‘Google’ them? Because of GDPR?

Shuooooo

ybahrbz91:
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I stay in an apartment with a student. The student name is on the house agreement with mine.

I understand a student is exempted from paying Council tax but we received the Council tax bill few days ago.

How should we go about it.

Have you applied for council tax exemption? for some council even after you applied for exemption you will still receive council bill as it might take a while for them to process it. Eventually you will get a letter telling you that you have been exempted and imploring you to inform them 21 days before your circumstances changes.

MichaelUde:


Lol, HR, me too dey wait.
Abi them no dey give Nigerians work in fraud prevention units?
Nobody should come for me, biko, even though I'm not fasting.

You’re a clown.
I work in financial crime prevention and i know quite a number of Nigerians who work in the financial crime space.
I cant speak on the GDPR issue but i can assure you we are permitted to check customers’ (current and prospective) social media platforms. Infact Screening of profiles on LinkedIn is part of my day-to-day work, although it’s not expected that you use your personal LinkedIn profile to check a customer’s page as this is unprofessional and classed as tipping off the customer.

Bluetherapy:
Any recommendations for tested and trusted ergonomic office chairs?

Secret Lab Chairs was the brand mentioned many pages back.

fatima04:
In a related scenario where a job advert on LinkedIn specifically states British passport holder, can that be classed as discrimination.

A colleague saw the attached advert and was really displeased but I wasn't surprised since I encountered quite a bit of that during my job search and they all claimed its due to Security Clearance for the jobs.

With her reaction, it now got me thinking if it's passive discrimination but I am just used to it hence my not seeing a big deal to it.

On the other hand stating it publicly saves the recruiter and applicant precious time.

I believe you can get SC if you have lived in UK for 5 years

KOVIC19COVID20:



I am genuinely surprised at how pretty standard procedures can suddenly be given racial connotations.

Someone made an application for debt. A company feels something doesn’t add up. The company says, NO, we can’t give you this credit because it doesn’t meet our policies. Company communicates to the applicant, saying sorry. We can’t give you this. Applicant almost immediately uses their debit card to make the same purchase, from the same company. Because the smell of the fish(y) from the first instance hasn’t completely gone, company says wait a minute, just a couple of hours ago, you wanted this same thing on credit. We said no. Now the same you have suddenly come up with £800.00 to make an outright purchase.We need to investigate further. Company details their fraud unit to investigate, to prove that this person is who they say they are. Because company doesn’t want to hold funds for too long, company returns £800 to customer. This was referred to fraud unit.
The fraud unit guy enters the name provided by the customer into Google search engine. The first hit is a LinkedIn page. Fraud unit guy browses the first link. And turns off their computer.


Customer (who uses LinkedIn Premium) now sees that Company employee had looked them up. Customer now claims they were refused because they were black? And African? Customer now says Company had no authority to ‘Google’ them? Because of GDPR?

Shuooooo

While I do not necessarily agree with the racial profiling part, she has a very valid point, in my opinion. I think you should read her subsequent comments. Paypal approved her credit request but John Lewis declined her transaction.
Going by your logic, what did the fraud team guy find in her linkedIn profile that made them decline her third transaction even after the payment was taken from her account and after she called and made a complaint?
Let's let this issue rest abeg.

TheGuyFromHR:


This one is interesting.
I usually see UK residents for past 3/5 years, etc. for this sort of job.
Except where it has to do with national security, that's the sort of thing where you see UK citizens only.
If this is an ordinary document controller position, then the stipulation for UK citizenship appears really strange to me.

Unless its MI5 or GCHQ and they're not saying.

Document controllers handle sensitive documents as well and depending on the project, may need security clearance. The ones in my company have it else they cannot work on some projects. Not sure about citizenship except if it has to do with the required level of clearance.

dustydee:

Document controllers handle sensitive documents as well and depending on the project, may need security clearance. The ones in my company have it else they cannot work on some projects. Not sure about citizenship except if it has to do with the required level of clearance.

I'm well aware what a document controller role entails, we recruit them.
What I said was that I thought that for a general document controller role in any usual commercial company, the requirement for British citizenship is unusual.
Security clearance stipulations are commonly seen and usually require a specified number of years of valid UK residency, and I've only come across a requirement for UK citizenship in adverts you see for the security services.

Divine88:

What really baffles me on here is that a lot of folks on this forum will go back and start digging your immigration history to know how long you’ve been here or what stage of immigration applications you are currently at.
Like someone said earlier, once you bring your wahala on here, you better be ready for anything!

Like I’m just weak, someone here went to like my post on a different thread from Sept 2021 where I spoke about waiting for my CAS and then came back to this thread to speak loosely on my credit history as if that has anything to do with the question I asked.

I’m going to be making some assumptions here.

First, I’m assuming the buyer hasn’t stayed in the uk for up to 3 years which is like the average credit lenders want to see before issuing credit.

Buyer attempted to buy a high value good on credit which the system declined. Buyer contacted customer service to find out what’s going on, buyer was told to retry.

I personal think this was what prompted the fraud prevention team to do a search on the customer. I’d think the first point of contact for the fraud team would be credit reference agencies like Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Then it appears the customer don’t have enough data to backup their request for a credit facility for the said amount.

Hence, fraud team has gone further to find more information about the customer in an attempt to provide them a good reason. They want to know if the customer is genuine and where they work Cus they appear “desperate” for a high value item.

I suggest that customer shld check their credit file to see which companies have carried out searches on their name.

I don’t think the race card fits in here but then I think the fraud team shld have contacted credit reference agencies and not customer’s LinkedIn profile. For all I know, LinkedIn is a professional online CV and I doubt if they would have asked the customer for their CV before granting them the credit.

I think the fraud team “spied” on the customer. Now whether it is lawful or unlawful is the question that begs for an answer.

Make I go break fast I dey come

tolajay:
Hello davide470,

Do you have an idea if the Binance currency switch from Naira to Pounds is till valid?

Considering the options of transferring some of Naira assets on Binance directly to a UK account without the aboki pathway.

Thanks

It is still valid. NGN - USDT - GBP. Use a Crypto friendly bank (challenger banks mostly)

1. Your GP
2. Occupational health of your current employer

Adazeal:
Please family, how and where does one get a full immunization history to meet a job requirement?

TheGuyFromHR:


And that's how it should be.
I'm still waiting to see if someone with experience/knowledge in fraud prevention can come and give us insight.

My sister works in the Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) of a FinTech in Europe. She said and I quote - once you see any transaction that could be flagged as fraudulent, there is no limit of what publicly available information (LinkedIn, FB, Twitter, Instagram etc.) to check so as to mitigate the risk as long as the info is used solely for that purpose and nothing else. Once a transaction failed security check, they go all out. The ideal thing is to pause that payment channel till it is certified ok by the FPU and before it is certified, DD must me carried out.

The OP can file a case which is well within his/her rights, but a FPU officer will squash it within 5 mins. There is no discrimination in Fraud Prevention (her words).

I just checked but couldn't find it on there anymore. It looks like the image below but with a padded comfy back instead of the mesh.
I also got a detachable padded back support for days when my back needs sime extra support. Will send a more accurate pic once I can.

Bluetherapy:


What's the chair called? I have been through Argos but don't know which one to settle for.


Legend has it that Gaming chairs are a waste of money. They are alll the same with no sensible invention.


True. Couldn't track it down. Few pages back is probably 50 pages....

dustydee:

While I do not necessarily agree with the racial profiling part, she has a very valid point, in my opinion. I think you should read her subsequent comments. Paypal approved her credit request but John Lewis declined her transaction.
Going by your logic, what did the fraud team guy find in her linkedIn profile that made them decline her third transaction even after the payment was taken from her account and after she called and made a complaint?
Let's let this issue rest abeg.

The fact that he/she paid with her debit card and they cancel the order, he/she isn't asking for credit, your credit history doesn't come into this when you are paying with your debit card, he/she stated they even had to approve the transaction via their banking app.

So I don't know why the debit thing comes into it. I don't think people really understands what's going on in here, honestly. This is a good case for her/him to work on.

Ray7878:


The fact that he/she paid with her debit card and they cancel the order, he/she isn't asking for credit, your credit history doesn't come into this when you are paying with your debit card, he/she stated they even had to approve the transaction via their banking app.

So I don't know why the debit thing comes into it. I don't think people really understands what's going on in here, honestly. This is a good case for her/him to work on.

What is the case here? Racism? or GDPR breach? Or both?

OP should stop wasting their time, and reserve the vex for something more tangible.

KOVIC19COVID20:


What is the case here? Racism? or GDPR breach? Or both?

OP should stop wasting their time, and reserve the vex for something more tangible.

You don’t have to predict what his/her case is. Let him/her pursue and get to the bottom of what happened. Let them investigate what and why, this is a free country with legislation and rules.

I just hope the OP goes with his/heart and go with their gut feelings.

mizGene:

Secret Lab Chairs was the brand mentioned many pages back.

After much research, I think it's best to totally avoid gaming chairs


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mimilyrics:
I just checked but couldn't find it on there anymore. It looks like the image below but with a padded comfy back instead of the mesh.
I also got a detachable padded back support for days when my back needs sime extra support. Will send a more accurate pic once I can.

This sounds and looks like something am looking for. I would appreciate if I could get the accurate name/description of the chair. I'm more interested in the back and neck support. At least if one would spend more than £100 on a chair, it should be worth it as well as avoiding having to return such bulky item.

omopapa:
1. Your GP
2. Occupational health of your current employer

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