Saturday 3 July 2010
The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has recently made an announcement about bogus job offers to overseas nationals looking for work in the UK. UK immigration warns that sometimes names of real UKBA officials are used in the job offers.
Rob Yeldham, director of communications at UKBA made the following announcement.
'My name has been used in several apparent attempts to scam foreign professionals looking for work in the UK. We have referred cases to our security unit, but at this stage it is unclear what the nature of the scam is, or where in the world it is based. The best advice is to be careful of any unsolicited offers.'
We would advise you to take the following precautions:
UKBA deals with immigration control. It is not their job to find work for migrants.
UKBA email addresses will normally have "gov" at the end of the email address.
It is normally difficult to obtain a work visa for entry to a particular Country. Before paying any money to an individual or entity for work related services ask for full details of the type of visa that you will come under.
Most legitimate organisations have their own domain name. For example they would not use a gmail or yahoo email address.
Try and avoid transferring money using Western Union or a similar service. It is difficult to know for sure exactly who will be receiving the money.
If everyone takes reasonable precautions it should be possible to beat the fraudsters.
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