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DMIXDJ · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 27 Location: Kigndom Of Bahrain

Just Received this into my Inbox.

Seems now their trying the Debt collector scam on people not stupid enough to fall for the First scam.

Quick note to anybody finding this through a Google search.......

***SCAM***DO**NOT**PAY!!***SCAM***SCAM
The Scam Email Reads.......

Department of Naturalization & Residency - Dubai

DEAR VISA/WORK PERMIT APPLICANTS,

You are only advised to Pay your Debts Urgently via Western Union Money Transfer to our underlisted Registrar here in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Receiver's Name: HELEN CHISAOKWU READ
Address : 9 Al Riqua Street, Dubai(United Arab Emirates)
This will enable us settle the designated offices and deliver your Visas/Work permits to your Addresses otherwise your application will be revoked.

Nobody will attend to you if follow your own instruction

Sincerely yours,
H.E. Saif Abdullah Al Shafar
United Arab Emirates-Ministry of Interior
Naturalization & Residency Administration-Dubai.
{Foreign Employment Visa Issuance Department}
P.O.Box: 4333, Dubai, U.A.E
Tel:+971-501874915
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.uaeimmigrations.tk

Rolling Eyes

Cant Believe The UAE have not managed to stop this yet?

mishmumkin · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 929

And yet another way they are scamming:

http://www.expatforum.com/expats/dubai-expat-forum-expats-living-dubai/8434-received-job-offer-english-teacher-khaimah-language-school-dubai.html

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Look, they have a new email address... it's not .tk, but .us

Anyone know anything about ".us"

VS

johnslat · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

According to Google:

"Welcome to website.us
This website was registered at Misk.com.
This website is under construction. Please check back soon."

Misk.com:

"Misk.com has been helping individuals and businesses register domain names and put themselves online since 1998. Misk.com is driven by research and innovation, which is backed up with a passion for stellar customer service.

Following the privatization of the domain registration industry, in May of 2000 our first automated domain registration web site was launched as RegisterSite.com. We changed our name to Misk.com in July of 2005 to build a unique brand and so our name wouldn't restrict the type of services we could offer."

Registration costs ten bucks a year.

http://www.misk.com/

Regards,
John

mishmumkin · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 929

US: Upper Samoa, I think.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Latest phishing ad posted below:

: WE OFFER $4800USD ESL TEACHING POSITION WITH FREE AIRFARE,ACCOMMODATION AND HIGH SALARY
Our school is a fully interactive place where students of all ages can visit classrooms, street performances, and English facilities like the bank, post office, and restaurants. All the while speaking English of course! In a sense, we are helping them experience the Western way of life, without having them leave United Arab Emirates.
The Students are so fully immersed in English they don't even realize that they are learning!
You will be required to teach in a new and innovative conversational English language program. Students are Emirate citizens who are enrolled in English language course and attend classes four days a week.
Teachers are paid for class time and preparation time in a Eight hours daily
Criteria:
1) Native English speaker or proven fluency in English with English teaching experience.
2) A COMPLETED Bachelors degree (not necessarily in English). This is a must. Those who have not completed a degree need not apply.
3) Some form of training in English Language teaching e.g. CELTA, TESL, TESOL, TEFL or equivalence.
4) 1- 2 years experience of teaching English, preferably adults.
PACKAGE:
$4800USD or equivalent paid in dirham each month (tax free)
Return Airfare from home city + single furnished bedroom (own bathroom and Kitchen) within the school premesis.
Please note the school is not able to provide accommodation for families.
* This is a contract job.
* Location: United Arab Emirates.
* Salary: $4800USD or equivalent paid in dirham each month (tax free)
* Plus $4800USD severance pay at end of a 1-year contract
* Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
* Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
We are looking for ESL teachers available for 1 year contracts with a possibility to extend for a longer period.
If you are interested,please send us your RESUME/C.V along with your earliest start date through below listed.
Email:[email protected]

charismatic1 · Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

I responded to an advert I saw posted on an ESL website before I realised it was a scam. I had my suspicions but alarm bells really started to ring when they informed me that I had they job without even interviewing me, all I'd done was fill out an application form & sent them a recent photograph with a copy of my resume.

I'm a bit concerned because even though I haven't sent them any money & they don't have my bank details, they do have personal information including my address, date of birth & my passport number & I am worried about identity theft.

I'm kicking myself for giving them my details I can't believe I was so naive.

Here's a copy of the advert:

WE OFFER $4800USD ESL TEACHING POSITION WITH FREE AIRFARE,ACCOMMODATION AND HIGH SALARY
Our school is a fully interactive place where students of all ages can visit classrooms, street performances, and English facilities like the bank, post office, and restaurants. All the while speaking English of course! In a sense, we are helping them experience the Western way of life, without having them leave United Arab Emirates.
The Students are so fully immersed in English they don't even realize that they are learning!
You will be required to teach in a new and innovative conversational English language program. Students are Emirate citizens who are enrolled in English language course and attend classes four days a week.
Teachers are paid for class time and preparation time in a Eight hours daily
Criteria:
1) Native English speaker or proven fluency in English with English teaching experience.
2) A COMPLETED Bachelors degree (not necessarily in English). This is a must. Those who have not completed a degree need not apply.
3) Some form of training in English Language teaching e.g. CELTA, TESL, TESOL, TEFL or equivalence.
4) 1- 2 years experience of teaching English, preferably adults.
PACKAGE:
$4800USD or equivalent paid in dirham each month (tax free)
Return Airfare from home city + single furnished bedroom (own bathroom and Kitchen) within the school premesis.
Please note the school is not able to provide accommodation for families.
* This is a contract job.
* Location: United Arab Emirates.
* Salary: $4800USD or equivalent paid in dirham each month (tax free)
* Plus $4800USD severance pay at end of a 1-year contract
* Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
* Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
We are looking for ESL teachers available for 1 year contracts with a possibility to extend for a longer period.
If you are interested,please send us your RESUME/C.V along with your earliest start date through below listed.
Email:[email protected]
www.uaeministryoflabors.tk
Tel:971-509468801

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

That is the same one that I posted right above. If you have sent them your papers, there is nothing you can do about it at this point.

You could go through the exercise of informing your government and getting a new passport, but this wouldn't stop them from using information from the old one.

Other than that, all you can do is wait and see. In the US, there are insurance policies for identity theft that you can get - where they help you fix things if your information is stolen and used. We also have the right to check our records at the three main credit agencies once a year for no charge.

Hopefully nothing will come of it.

VS

charismatic1 · Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

Thanks for the advice VS. Yeah I realised it was the same advert you'd posted above but thought I'd repost it anyway for emphasis.

As soon as I realised, I called the UK passport agency & they said that due to new protection rules & regulations it would be virtually impossible for another person to use my passport number but I am still concerned that they have my full name, date of birth & address. I filled out the form by hand & scanned it rather than typing my details & the scan isn't very clear at all so hopefully they won't be able to decipher the information.

gajackson1 · Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Posts: 210

I had been sent this a couple of days ago, from a friend who was 'looking out for me' in case I can't secure a job here in Brunei in the next few months. The .tk caught my spidey-sense, as well; a quick couple of search checks turned up this related thread:

http://www.esl-jobs-forum.com/viewtopic.php?p=7584

I had NOT sent along anything - letter of inquiry, docs, money, etc. Just sending your passport info, apparently, is not so much a cause for concern.

However, it is important (as long-time Korea vets know) that you should NEVER send along crystal-clear color copies and/or originals of things like driver's license/IDP, uni degree, teaching certs, etc.

I am afraid that these ads will morph yet again - if even one person sends money, docs, etc., then the scam has paid for itself to reseed for another 6 months.

Regards,

Glen

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Update:

Any advertisement that shows email addresses or websites with:

.tk
.us
.de

This is guaranteed to be a SCAM.

Also the use of a Hotmail address supposedly tied to any Ministry is almost certainly a scam.

VS

kiefer · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 268

It's not just we teflers being scammed.
Someone bought a domain irs-gov.com and whacked the first page of the true irs.gov. Looked the business. Slipping gov into the address also was a brilliant idea.

People who received this scam were told they had a refund of so many hundred dollars and to please submit bank account information for a deposit. Every link on the page resolved back to the main page even the one that said click for Spanish translation.

So not only be wary of the .tk or .de but also the domain name itself, even if it is a dot com.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

One protection for everyone on scams like this is to NEVER NEVER NEVER send banking or password information based on an email from anyone. No business or the government, or especially bank or credit card company will request account information by email.

VS

kiefer · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 268

VS couldn't be more right, unless you are approached by send_me_your_passport_information_atm_account_number_and pin_number dot com.

I see that domain is available. As I've said before, I want to get into the business.

Nashledanou · Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 64

This is hilarious. I applied at eslemployment.com for this position in the Emirates, a well-paid one. They sent me a questionnaire full of geeky questions that I was just too lazy to go about answering 'properly' (I thought, what the hell, don't they want to TALK to me?...)

So, without having read this thread, I decided on having a little fun instead, and this is how I filled out the questionnaire: