Warning to all Filipino netizens, especially those hoping to find a job abroad! There is a deceiving email scam circulating right now tagged as “permit-to-work coaching scam”.

The email claims to be from a certain healthcare institution looking for registered nurses and other healthcare professionals. The sender sometimes claims to be an HR personnel of Saint Elizabeth Health Care,  AgeCare, CalaCare, among others and uses the names of Philippine-based job sites and POEA-licensed agencies to put a sense of legitimacy to it.

According to the crooked email, the job is open to nursing graduates with PRC license even without experience.  Accordingly, they are also welcoming graduates or undergraduates of other medical allied professionals like caregivers, nursing aides, midwives, therapists, with or without PRC license and with or without experience. 

Furthermore, the email also offers too-good-to-be-true qualifications and promises. They said that no work experience is required since they are offering on-the-job training in Canada with salary during the first 3 months within the employment contract. 

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To further entice the recipient, the fictitious email sender promises to shoulder the airfare, work permit and working visa processing and that nobody will fail the seminar and interview with the employers.

This is the alarming part. The sender would require the recipient to attend the FIRST and LAST Employment-Deployment Seminar for the year 2014 thus forcing them to attend and pay the Employment-Deployment Seminar for slot reservation via money transfer centers worth P3,800.00.  They would even warn that only those applicants who paid on or before their given date would be accepted.

Note: Should you happen to receive an email like this, please take utmost precaution.  Ignore it, don’t believe it or verify its validity with POEA first.