It may be the ultimate nightmare for an underpaid nurse or other professionals and Filipinos to be scammed out of their hard earned money and time. Fraudulent job offers were supposed to be a thing of the past after the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) upgraded their system and started becoming more transparent with information about recruitment agencies.
Usually it would be enough to just go over the POEA website and search for the legitimacy of a recruitment agency via the POEA databanks that are updated regularly. Unfortunately, scammers have stepped up their game and have begun using a newer way to scam people.
Trusted Recruitment Agencies
Social media is a powerful tool and it is often through websites like Facebook that agencies post their job ads. The most phrases to lure individuals are the following statements by recruitment agency XYZ.
STUDY ABROAD! NO IELTS/NCLEX NEEDED! FLY NOW PAY LATER! IMMEDIATE DEPLOYMENT!
These statements usually trigger the curiosity of people. People will try to check the agency only to find that everything is legitimate. It is POEA registered, no delinquency and no problems to date. What’s more, the agency says deployment will be at the end of the month! This is the siren’s call that lures in a lot of applicants.
