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POEA warns healthcare professionals against e-mail scams

MANDALUYONG CITY, 1 July (PIA)--The POEA has warned Filipino nurses and other healthcare professionals against fraudulent e-mails offering employment in big hospitals in Canada and other countries.

The fake job offer assures the worker of immediate interview by the foreign employer, non-payment of placement and processing fees, free accommodation and food allowance, and other too-good-to-be-true benefits.

Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac also warned job applicants on supposed job opportunities spread through social media like Facebook and Twitter.

Cacdac said one such e-mail received by the POEA offers employment in Kingston General Hospital (KGH) in Ontario, Canada and instructs applicants to pay PhP3,750 as registration fee for a mandatory training session.

The management of Kingston General Hospital has denied involvement in any recruitment campaign in the Philippines. In its website, KGH said "it does not actively recruit nursing staff from abroad, nor does it recruit through e-mail, and will never ask job applicants to send money as part of the job application process”.

Cacdac said applicants should just ignore such e-mail stating that they have been selected for a nursing position in hospitals they have not even applied for.

“Instead, job seekers may search the POEA website for available job orders or use the POEA application for smartphones and tablets,” Cacdac added. (POEA/RJB/SDL/PIA-NCR)

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