“Urgent vacancy” without your application
Someone contacts you first in Telegram, WhatsApp, or email, offers a good position, rushes your answer, and asks you to send documents immediately.
Safety guide for seafarers
Protect yourself from fraud in the maritime industry
Finding a job at sea is a serious step, and scammers exploit that. This page collects the practical checks every seafarer should know before sending documents, replying to recruiters, or paying anyone.
SeaJobs works only through seajobs.ru
Email only from @seajobs.ru
SeaJobs.ru is only a website. Nothing else.
Our service works exclusively through seajobs.ru. We do not call, write in messengers, offer vacancies in direct messages, or ask you to pay for anything.
If someone claims to be a SeaJobs.ru employee and offers help with employment, it is not us. Do not reply and do not share any data.
Emails from us come only from @seajobs.ru addresses. Everything else should be treated as a fake.
Common scams targeting seafarers
Scammers understand maritime hiring and use the pressure of urgent joining dates, documents, and overseas employment.
Advance payment for “processing”
They say you must pay for a visa, medical examination, certificates, or insurance. Real employers do not do this.
Fake employer
A scammer creates a website resembling a real shipping company, copies logos and email style. Verify only through the official company channel.
Phishing emails
Emails like “Confirm your account”, “Your profile will be deleted”, or “New employer offer” may lead to fake websites.
Checklist
How to verify a job offer in 5 steps
Find the vacancy yourself
Open SeaJobs.ru or the company’s official website and search for the position. No vacancy means no trust.
Check the sender domain
@maersk.com is normal. @maersk-recruitment.net or @hr-maersk.org is a warning sign. Scammers register similar domains.
Search the company online
Look for the official website, registration date, and seafarer reviews on forums. If the company appeared recently and nobody knows it, be careful.
Call the company directly
Use the phone number from the official website, not from the email. Ask whether they really sent you the offer. Legitimate companies will understand.
Asked to pay? Stop.
This automatically means fraud. No exceptions.
How scammers get your data
Seafarers are attractive targets because they have a profession with solid income and often need to look for work. Data can be collected from many places:
- CVs on open platforms and forums
- registrations on unknown vacancy websites
- old agency databases that were sold or stolen
- Telegram groups, chats, and other messengers
- social media accounts showing rank and specialization
- hacked accounts with weak passwords
- pirated mobile job-search applications
- phishing emails and forms
Found your data on an unfamiliar website?
Some websites automatically copy CVs and profiles from other platforms, then invite you to “log in” or “confirm” an account already created in your name.
Do not do this. You will only confirm to scammers that the account is active, and your data may spread further.
What to do
Write to the hosting provider and domain registrar of that website. State that your personal data was published without consent and demand removal. Refer to personal data laws: GDPR if you are in Europe, or Russian Federal Law 152-FZ.
Our position
SeaJobs.ru shares your data with employers only when you agree to it yourself: by applying for a vacancy or by configuring your profile visibility. There is no automatic transfer of your data.
We verify employers who post vacancies on the platform. But what happens to your data after it is transferred to an employer is outside our control. Your own caution is as important as our work.
If your data leaked through third-party websites where you registered yourself, we cannot control its further distribution.
