Warning: Scam emails about a supposed ACCIONA job offer

Recently ACCIONA has received a number of email and phone enquiries from people asking for confirmation that an ACCIONA job offer is real, or informing us of correspondence that has taken place before they realized it was not genuine.

Enquirers refer to the same "Senior Executive (…) Paul Chestnut" that has contacted them.

ACCIONA wishes it to make clear that these messages are fraudulent and that the senders are not authorized to use the "ACCIONA" name.

This is how the fraud works:

An individual is asked to come to the country of the supposed job offer, "all expenses paid", for a job interview or similar meeting. But in order to get into the country it is claimed that the individual needs to place funds with the corresponding borders authorities before they are allowed to travel. The individual is instructed that he or she must make the transfer via "Western Union" or a similar service, which enables the criminal to withdraw the cash from one of many outlets (usually just with a transaction reference number) and the criminal and the cash are never seen again.

ACCIONA takes this matter very seriously and wishes to stress that the Company engages in no such practices. We urge anyone who receives such emails, phone calls or other similar messages, supposedly on behalf of ACCIONA, to exercise the utmost caution.