First it was the Middle East, then Canada, Australia and the UK. Scammers and illegal recruiters are now offering fake job opportunities to Filipino nurses who would like to work in Singapore, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration revealed.
POEA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac said the Human Resource Division of the Singapore General Hospital has alerted Filipino authorities about inquiries being made by Filipino nurses. The nurses claimed that offers were being sent from email addresses such as singaporegenhosp @zoho. com, singaporegeneralhosp @ojooo.com and singaporegenhosp @hush.com.
The hospital’s HRD Chief, Tan Zhiyi stressed that the hospital’s official email address ends with sgh.com.sg.The scam is requiring nurse applicants to pay P3,800 for a visa interview which they must pay through a spurious bank account.
Cacdac warned against these types of scams which require applicants to shell out money for an interview, training or English language exam. He advised Filipinos seeking work abroad to verify with the POEA before paying anything, the Journal reported.
