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saral · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 32 Location: New Zealand

Has anyone heard of these people, located "throughout Dubai" ? I've received a very nice email from them advising me that I will be receiving a"letter of employment " from them but I can't access their website www.zafirahlanguagesinstitute.tk . I went through Global Recruiters. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

chemdah · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 19

There are several threads on these guys. I also applied for the same position. Unfortunately, they are a scam.....

Check this thread out:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?t=58448&highlight=global+recruiters

saral · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 32 Location: New Zealand

Chemdah, thanks for that. I thought I had read about them somewhere and the feeling was not good. The global recruiters site is extremely lavender.....and frilly ...that can't be good.

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

In the Emirates, I would avoid recruiters completely. All of the decent employers hire direct.

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saral · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 32 Location: New Zealand

Actually I don't really know how I got into discussion with them as I just suddenly received an offer from them. The same thing happened with some outfit wanting me to teach English online... Confused

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

That is almost scary. How are they getting your contact information I wonder.

Just don't provide them with any further personal information!! Shocked

VS

SF21 · Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 72 Location: California

I made the same mistake. I found this same job ad on eslemployment.com and sent my CV. Then I received an email from a "H.E. Dr. Khalid Mohammed Al Khazraji" at the UAE "Ministry of Labour"... www.uaeministryoflabour.tk ...so I applied and unfortunately filled out their whole "application" (including passport number and signature). Then I received an email back from "Al Khazraji" saying someone would be contacting me. Then an email came from "Jamal Al Mehairi " of Zafirah Language Institutes" saying that after a successful "interview" I would be receiving a employment offer. That's when I realized it was a scam. I should've been tipped off by all the misspelled words in the original ad and the fact that when I called the number, no one answered.

Anyway, I haven't heard back from them asking for money or anything. But I put a fraud alert in with the US credit reporting agencies just to cover my azz.

Avoid anything with a ".tk" domain ending!

kiefer · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 268

One of the first things that flagged Global recruiters for me was that they use a free web host. I mentioned it. They must have read it and instead of putting out 10 bucks a year to pay for a domain name and 50 bucks a year to host it, they used w[url]ww.dot.tk[/url] to point to their free host less suspiciously. They probably not only don't have 60 dollars to spare but nobody on board their crew of scam artist who can build a simple html site. Free hosts will give you dynamic capabilities--like php forms and such--all paid for with advertising. You want a website? Can you type, point and click. Boom. You got yourself a free website.

Again, a free host will always have its name first in the url and your domain name second. Dot TK points to that free site as though you have a legitimate domain name.

RED FLAG dot tk websites.

seven seas · Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 65

at the end of the address, it says .tk

which is obviously not the suffix for the UAE.

Avoid them.

kiefer · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 268

Guess I can't overstate this enough nor draw too much attention to it for people wise enough to do a search:

dot tk is an effort by an IT business based on a tiny island in the Pacific called Tokelau which is trying to become some sort of player on the IT world stage by allowing you to choose a free domain name with a dot tk suffix, shortening the rather long free host URLs (which allow you a SUBDOMAIN ONLY) to something sounding more legitimate by eliminating the domain name of the free host.

Your dot tk will act as a pointer to your free site.

http://www.dot.tk/en/pageA50.html

Global Recruiters might not be the only scam artists in Nigeria who have caught on to making their sub domain names sound more legit. But do avoid any so-called businesses with an URL pointing to .tk. Use them to shorten a blog name or something you may put up at Geocities for your classes--the names sound better than when you use an URL snip.

Jebus. A real domain and a host only runs about 60 bucks a year. Just how bakheel are these Nigerian thugs anyway?

Thing is, if we find a scam being run on a legitimate server host, we can generally request that the domain name be pulled. We've done that once with Global Recruiters. See the sticky.

kiefer · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 268

Gulf News Reported the story and according to the report, a criminal investigation is underway.
http://gulfnews.com/nation/Police_and_The_Courts/10187926.html

Longton · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 148

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kiefer · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 268

No--Kiefer knows him.

boomerang_kid · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:24 pm Post subject:

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Check out:

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Timely information --- quickly shared with others --- might be the only thing we can do, until the government of Nigeria is willing to crack down on these guys.
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Have a look at this thread, which is probably the same guys:

http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=638162#638162

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