Warning To OFW’s Going To UK
The Department of Foreign Affairs warns future OFW’s over the widespread of emails inviting them for a job in the UK as this may be a new scam operating in our country.
Philippine embassy in London reported that the culprits modus is to pose as British Border and Immigration Agency officials, which is a unit of British Home Office that manages migration in UK but the email addresses are from free accounts.
Edgardo Espiritu, Philippine Ambassador to London said “the e-mail message carries the official address of the British Border and Immigration Agency in its internal communications but use email addresses obtained from commercial Internet and e-mail service providers. Other syndicates employ the name of other British or Filipino agencies.
Victims are made to pay in an accredited remittance centers that are easily available nationwide. DFA says that before paying anything to any agency or employer, you should first verify its legitimacy over the POEA. If a payment is asked before deployment this could be a suspicious transaction.
According to DFA, there are more than 200,000 estimated Filipinos working in UK, mostly caregivers and nurses. Just recently UK adopted a new point based system to manage the migration of foreigners, making the authorities closely monitoring the entry of non European Union workers.
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March 8th, 2008 at 5:58 am
To our Fellow Filipino, Please you should be very careful with this type of scam it’s all over the place, we heard a lot of this in the Philippines and it’s very obvious. Further investigation won’t hurt and save the hard earn money (If not loaned that is) or else that makes it more shameful, to make it worse your in debt big time.
March 8th, 2008 at 6:12 am
ang hindi ko naman ma-gets ay kung bakit ang dami pa ring naloloko ng mga illegal recruitment practices na ganyan. ganun na ba ka desperate ang iba para kagatin ang mga ganyang offers without confirming sources and their validity?
thanks for posting this. sana maliwanagan ang karamihan nating kababayan.
March 8th, 2008 at 6:56 am
ang tanga naman cguro ng magpapaloko.. btw, ate, online ka ba, YM? may ipapatulong sana ako eh bout wordpress
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March 8th, 2008 at 7:18 am
dfa and poea website would help a lot on closing a working deal abroad to avoid fake transactions
March 8th, 2008 at 7:20 am
lack of information i guess, lalo na if galing sa probinsya at wala masyado background sa ganyan at alamo naman ung ibang manloloko mukhang di manloloko kaya sobrang tiwala agad.
March 8th, 2008 at 7:21 am
online ko
March 8th, 2008 at 8:37 am
di nmn zang katangahan yun.sa hirap ng buhay satin e nakikipagsapalaran na sila.
March 8th, 2008 at 8:40 am
nasa ugali kasi natin mga pinoy ang pagkaexcite sa isang magandang balita kaya di na nila naalam pa kung ito ga ay tama.sa hirap n din ng buhay at kagustuhan iangat ang buhay kya siguro sila nadadala sa ganyan.
March 8th, 2008 at 8:42 am
naku maluluge ang mga may UK dito sa pinas lalo na sa baguio!ahehehehe
March 8th, 2008 at 9:19 am
lalo na pag ituloy ni gma ang tax sa uk uk
March 8th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
My God this entry is very timely. I just received an email from UK *daw* asking me if im willing to work there. He said that i need to shell out money for the processing, i said why not. i thought he’s referring to all my expenses here, but when he said that i need to pay the agency first, ang sabi ko sige kausapin ko muna ang uncle ko na police sa UK! Di na sumagot ang loko.
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March 8th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
this notorious email is very rampant today so let us all be aware of it. check thru dfa and double check it to poea.
March 8th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
By the way, thanks sa info Mommy Joyce.
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March 10th, 2008 at 1:38 am
pero sana mag-ingat sila, ang hahirapan di yun rason para maging tanga at arisgada (impulsive). walang maloloko kung walang magpapaloko
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January 22nd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
ano po ang masasabi ninyo sa mga advisory agency sa Maynila na ang sistema po ay ganito: study and work in UK. Sila po ang hahanap ng employer at pag doon na sa UK ay pwede pong mag-aral ng BA Management. Legal po ba ang ganun?
January 28th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Hi,
Help. tingin nyo ba scam to?
1) eto ung email british_immigrationagency@walla.com.
from my research @walla.com is free email account
2) nanghihingi agad ng 750 USD
January 28th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Sa tingin ko scam yan. Dyan sila kikita sa processing fee. Pag nagbigay na tayo, goodbye hard-earned money!
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