{"id":257405,"date":"2020-06-08T04:53:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=257405"},"modified":"2020-06-08T04:53:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:53:12","slug":"poea-cautions-jobseekers-vs-online-seminar-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/08\/poea-cautions-jobseekers-vs-online-seminar-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"POEA cautions jobseekers vs. online &#8216;seminar&#8217; scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_236731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236731\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/406284_321787731247157_29447789_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-236731\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/406284_321787731247157_29447789_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/406284_321787731247157_29447789_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/406284_321787731247157_29447789_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/406284_321787731247157_29447789_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">POEA Administrator Bernard Olalia said unscrupulous individuals or groups are sending an email using the name of a licensed Philippine recruitment agency without the latter\u2019s knowledge to lure prospective victims. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/poea.gov.ph\/photos\/a.321785201247410\/321787731247157\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/poea.gov.ph\/\">Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA)\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) on Monday warned Filipinos looking for jobs overseas against emails informing them of being selected for employment abroad.<\/p>\n<p>POEA Administrator Bernard Olalia said unscrupulous individuals or groups are sending an email using the name of a licensed Philippine recruitment agency without the latter\u2019s knowledge to lure prospective victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe email has this standard subject line: &#8216;Last 8 slots left for XYZ INTERNATIONAL MANPOWER SERVICES (POEA License No. 1223-3837) for the first 20 applicants for Canada June 2020 Deployment&#8217;,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The jobs are supposedly available in countries like the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the target victim is asked to pay PHP3,000 as a reservation fee to be sent through a remittance company for the supposed mandatory orientation seminar to be conducted at the office of the licensed recruitment agency.<\/p>\n<p>The scammer also promises high salaries, non-payment of placement and processing fees, and other too good to be true remunerations.<\/p>\n<p>He added that unsolicited job offers through email and social media which requires payment of fees for seminar, documentation, and processing of visa and other travel documents is a sure sign of a scam.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Olalia advised applicants to validate the authenticity of job offers with the POEA through its verification system at poea.gov.ph and hotlines 8722-1144 and 8722-1155.<\/p>\n<p>He also urged the public to immediately report any suspicious or illegal online recruitment activities to the Anti-Illegal Illegal Recruitment Branch\u2019s Operations and Surveillance Division at email poea_airb_osd@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) on Monday warned Filipinos looking for jobs overseas against emails informing them of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":236731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257406,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257405\/revisions\/257406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}