Scammers are impersonating Blackpearl Group to target jobseekers. If you have received a job offer, interview invitation or employment paperwork claiming to be from Blackpearl Group, Black Pearl Group, Black Pearl Mail, Pearl Diver, Bebop, B2B Rocket or NewOldStamp, read this page before you respond. It explains how we actually recruit, so you can check whether an approach is genuine.
Since July 2026, people have been contacted by fraudsters posing as Blackpearl Group. The approach usually arrives by email or LinkedIn message, claims we found the recipient's CV on a job site, and lists a large number of remote roles. Anyone who replies is invited to an interview on Microsoft Teams with someone using the name of a real Blackpearl Group employee.
After the interview, the target is asked to sign an offer letter and employment agreement, and to send a copy of their passport or driver licence. They are then sent a cheque, with instructions to deposit it and forward part of the money on. The cheque is counterfeit and is dishonoured a few days later, at which point the bank recovers the money from the person who deposited it.
We know of twelve people who have been approached. There are almost certainly more.This is still happening. The most recent approach we know of was sent on 10 September 2026, and the people behind it change the email addresses and details they use every few weeks.
Blackpearl Group has no involvement in any of this. We have reported it to the email providers involved, to Microsoft, to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center and to Netsafe in New Zealand.
We advertise our roles on Seek, which is where our official vacancies are listed. Depending on the role, we sometimes also advertise on LinkedIn. We do not list vacancies on this website.
We often recruit through recruitment consultancies. Where we do, the consultancy runs the process and may advertise the role under its own branding or dual-branded with ours. A genuine recruiter will contact you under their own name and from their own company's email address, not from a Blackpearl Group address. This is normal and not a warning sign in itself. Everything else on this page still applies to them.
If someone contacts you claiming to be Blackpearl Group itself, the email will come from an address ending in one of the following:
We never contact candidates from Gmail, Outlook.com, Hotmail, consultant.com, usa.com or similar free email services. If someone presents themselves as Blackpearl Group from an address outside the list above, it is not us, however convincing the name and signature look.
We may occasionally approach candidates directly, so an unexpected approach is not automatically fraudulent. The points below explain how to tell the difference.
We never ask a candidate for money. Not for training, equipment, software or background checks, and not for any other reason at any stage. Nor does any recruiter acting for us.
We never send a candidate a cheque, and we never ask anyone to deposit or forward funds. There is no circumstance in which we would send money to a candidate before they are employed.
We do not ask for identity documents or bank details until we have made you a formal written offer, and never during or immediately after a first interview.
We never interview through WhatsApp, Telegram or a personal Microsoft Teams account. Interviews are only arranged by a named person using a business account, and you will always know who you are meeting and what role you are being considered for.
We never conduct interviews by text message or chat alone. A real interview involves a real conversation.
If you are unsure about anything, check with us using the form below before you respond. That is the most reliable test available to you, and it is why the form is there.
Signs that an approach is not from us:
If you are not sure, please check with us before you reply. We would far rather answer a question that turns out to be nothing.
These addresses and accounts have been used to impersonate us.
This list will never be complete. Since July 2026 the people behind this have used a different sending address every two to three weeks. An address not appearing on this list does not mean the approach is genuine. If you are unsure, use the form below.
Email addresses used to send the fraudulent approaches:
Accounts used to conduct the fake interviews:
Names being used without permission: the fraudsters have used the names of two real Blackpearl Group people, and have also invented "Adam Jones", "Peter Sean" and "Asher Theodore". None of these people work in recruitment for us.
We will confirm whether the approach came from us. We will never ask you for identity documents, bank details or payment, and you should treat any request for those as fraudulent even if it appears to come from this page.
If you would rather not use the form, you can reach us through the contact details published elsewhere on this site. If you have any doubt about a message that appears to be from us, please type blackpearl.com into your browser yourself rather than following a link.
If you have been sent a cheque, or have deposited one:
Contact your bank as soon as you can and tell them it may be connected to a recruitment scam. Do not send money on to anyone, by Zelle, bank transfer or any other method. Payments made this way are treated by banks as authorised and are very hard to reverse, so money sent onward is usually not recoverable. This is how the scam takes its money, the cheque is counterfeit and will be dishonoured after it appears to clear, and your bank will recover those funds from your account.
If you have sent copies of identity documents:
Treat those details as compromised. In the United States, IdentityTheft.gov will generate a recovery plan for you. In New Zealand, Netsafe can help. Elsewhere, contact your national fraud or identity theft reporting service.
Ways to report it:
In the United States: ReportFraud.ftc.gov and IC3.gov.
In New Zealand: Netsafe.
Please also tell us:
Use the form above to let us know what happened. There is nothing to be embarrassed about, and we are not judging anyone who was taken in. This scam was carefully built, and the people who spotted it often did so by luck as much as judgement. Every report has told us something we did not know.
