PNP warns of fake job scam for nurse applicants

The embassy of the Republic of Singapore has requested police assistance to stop a fake job scam using the email addresses of the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) without their authorization.

An advisory from the SGH said schemers offer fake job offers to candidates from the Philippines for the position of staff nurses in SGH through the email addresses of singaporegenhosp@yahoo.com,singaporegeneralhosp@ojoo.com, singaporegenhosp@hush.com.

The scammers reportedly also publicized and used their online job advertisement in their email communication to these candidates without SGH approval.

Accordingly, the emails which were sent to the candidates allegedly under SGH’s name requested payment of $3800 through a bank account (not owned by SGH) as SGH embassy visa interview preparation fee.

These emails were sent by forging the human resource director’s and nursing director’s names of the SGH. 

The advisory said SGH would like to put on record that their organization did not authorize any company under the abovementioned email addresses and/or its personnel to make any offer of employment on behalf of SGH and neither did they request for any form of payment to be made to them or to any bank account.

The Cordillera regional police said it publicized this information prevent personsfrom being victimized by this scam and would welcome information this scam so perpetrators would be arrested.