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Manila: Filipinos seeking overseas work have been warned against e-mail scams after a top labour official received a fake employment offer from a firm supposedly based outside the country.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) said POEA administrator Rosalinda Baldoz herself received an email purportedly from First Global Manpower offering to process her visa and travel documents so that she could work abroad.
First Global Manpower, according to the firm's own website, recruits people to work as fish packers, garden workers and office cleaners in Ecuador, United States, Canada and Turkey. It lists an office address in Ivory Coast in Africa.
In its e-mail, First Global Manpower claims to be recruitment and visa consultants in West Africa.
"We have our agent throughout African Countries both west, north and south of Africa. It will be the best opportunity for your company to deal directly with our company," First Global Manpower's website said.
But Baldoz said the job offer was apparently a scam and does not target any particular person or group of individuals. Aside of that, the labour official apparently is not interested in working as a fish packer abroad.
She said it was apparent that her email address and those of all other potential victims were apparently sourced from a list.
Baldoz also warned Filipino job seekers against other notorious Internet-based "job recruiters".
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