NRI's Be Careful with Fake Job Offers

On June 21^st 2007 & 19th Aug 2007, we at HubliCity-eGroup  (http://hublicity-egroup.blogspot.com ) received 2 e-mail's from Mr. Zakir Sheik in Qatar & Altaf in Oman.

 

From: zakir shaikh

To: HubliCity@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 22:13

Subject: [HubliCity] Fwd: OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT/CONTRACT FOR SUPPLY OF SERVICE

 

Note: forwarded message attached.

RESPECTED MEMBERS CAN ANY ONE HELP ME OUT TO THE
MATTER GIVEN BELOW AS I AM AT QATAR WHICH DOES NOT
HAVE AN EMBASSY FOR NIGERIA AT QATAR WERE IN COULD
VERIFY FOR THE GIVEN MATTER BELLOW

REGARDS
Shaikh Zakir Hussain

 

Another E-mail was received to HubliCity-eGroup on Aug 19th

 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Altaf hussain" <alta>
To: <HubliCity@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: <sunilnalavade>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: [HubliCity] Online con:Can This be also a scam ??


> Dear Sunil
> Regards
> Thankyou very much for the information, even i get a
> contract and offer letter  3 days before from Total
> Petroleum Company, you can see the Documents attached
> i had applied with ref to the advertisement published
> in "Times of Oman" Could this be a scam ? Please
> Advise
> Thanks
> Altaf hussain
> Muscat
> 00968 92165615

 

After detailed investigation by me, I found out that, these Nigerian Fake Companies, post advertisements in leading news papers in Gulf countries like Qatar & Oman, where there is no Nigerian Embassy and lure innocent NRI's  with hefty pay packets.

 

This company Total Petroleum PLC, once receives your resume, they will contact you with their professionally made Contract for supply of Service and Offer Of Employment, the letters is drafted so professionally, that, you can get easily duped, if you are not careful.

 

In this letter of offer, they will state that you need to get in touch with the Nigerian immigration authorities for procurement of your resident/work
permit , they provide you the e-mail ID which is fake : work-permit@visa-immigration-gov-nig.com  once you contact them or some times you will receive e-mail from the fake Nigerian Immigration authorities, stating that your employment has been confirmed with Total Petroleum PLC & we have been asked to contact you and process your residence visa/work permit with the following message :

 

Attn: Zakir Shaikh,
Regarding the procurement of your resident/work
permit(Employment Authorization Document), you are
required to provide the following pre-requisites:
(1)International Passport bearing your genuine
face(Scanned Copy)
(2) Success letter/Contract document provided to you
by your employer(Which I have recieved)
(3) Fill the visa form and return immediately via
e-mail attachment
(4) The processing of your work/resident permit
attracts a government charge as stipulated:
a) Application Fee: --------------------US$350.00

b) Processing Fee: --------------------US$270.00

c) Courier Fee: -------------------------US $430.00

d) Consular Fee; ---------------------- US$350 .00

e) Insurance Fee: ----------------------US$420.00

Total: US$1820

Note that you are required to remit this money along
with the filled form at the earliest to enable us
facilitate and expedite your procurement of your valid
work/resident permit immediately.Also ,note that once
the payment for the government charge and other
requirements aforementioned are confirmed,it would
take four(4) working days to complete the procurement
of your valid work/residence permit and would be
dispatched to you accordingly.
Regards,
Comptroller Mike O. Ademola
Head of Visa/Work Permit Operations
+234-70-31599492  

 

Once you send them, this money, they keep asking for more and more, as happened in the case of Dr Deepa B M, in Bangalore, where she was fleeced by 4.69 Lakhs, where they had offered her health officer in the United Nations (UN).

 

What I would like to educate citizens is that, when you receive such e-mails, make very simple investigations like, in this case, they asked you to contact the Nigerian Immigration work-permit@visa-immigration-gov-nig.com now, pl remember that, 99 % of e-mail ID 's are an extension of a website, in this case the website will be work-permit@visa-immigration-gov-nig.com website  www.visa-immigration-gov-nig.com ( This site has now been closed after our report in HubliCity-eGroup and Hubli Dharwad Cyber Security website - http://hubli-dwdcybersecurity.blogspot.com/2007/08/fw-hublicity-online-concan-this-be-also.html ) so check this site in the internet and go to any search engine like Google and Yahoo and type Nigerian Immigration and you will get the correct site which is http://www.immigration.gov.ng/index2.htm

 

 

Thanks to our HubliCity-eGroup these two members were saved from getting cheated.

 

Sunil Nalavade

Moderator

HubliCity – eGroup and Hubli Dharwad Cyber Security Blog Site