Warning against new recruitment scam offering jobs with Dh5,000 salary in UAE

Abu Dhabi: A recent warning has been issued against yet one more recruitment scam that targets health-care professionals with a salary of Dh5,000 in the UAE.

Abu Dhabi-based VPS Healthcare has sounded the alarm after receiving copies of faux nursing recruitment contracts despatched to job-seekers claiming to be from Response Plus Medical (RPM), one in every of its subsidiaries.

One of the candidates, who obtained the pretend letter, is a male nurse working as a employees nurse at a non-public hospital in a south Indian state. Expecting higher alternatives overseas, he had approached an agent in his state. The agent promised a job in the UAE, saying Abu Dhabi-based RPM is recruiting nurses. After that, there was a digital interview and the candidate obtained the contract on WhatsApp.

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been a number of vacancies in the health-care sector overseas and I used to be making an attempt to get a superb job in any of the Gulf nations. I’ve three years of expertise as a employees nurse in India. The one who promised me a job in the UAE mentioned all preparations for on-line interview had been made,” the male nurse who wished to be recognized solely as ‘M’ mentioned. He added that a web based interview was carried out and after every week, an employment contract was despatched to him on WhatsApp.

“As per the contract, they promised me Dh5,000 salary and lodging. I attempted to confirm the supply, however many health-care staff could fall into the lure with out checking the genuineness of the contract and the claims made by the brokers,” mentioned M.

The new job scam comes shut on the heels of one other recruitment scam involving nurses from India who have been provided jobs at COVID-19 vaccination and testing centres in the UAE, which led a whole lot of Indian nurses, primarily from the state of Kerala, to be stranded right here.

VPS is among the healthcare teams in the UAE that got here ahead to supply jobs to the stranded Indian nurses following experiences about them in the media together with Gulf News. A VPS spokesperson advised Gulf News on Tuesday that the group had employed as many as 110 stranded Indian nurses they usually have been in the method of securing training licences in the UAE.

In its warning against the recent scam, the group famous that there was a surge in the variety of individuals being ensnared in on-line job frauds for the reason that starting of the pandemic. The group has cautioned the general public to remain vigilant about fabricated commercials which can be being circulated by people or companies falsely claiming to be representatives or associates of VPS Healthcare or its subsidiaries. The group additionally acknowledged that it neither authorises any third celebration to challenge job gives on its behalf nor does it accumulate any fee or charges from candidates.

Major Tom Louis, CEO of RPM, mentioned: “There was an enormous nurses’ recruitment scam just lately. Taking benefit of the pandemic, these brokers have been approaching the candidates, suggesting there have been job alternatives obtainable overseas. Jobseekers should use correct channels and needs to be cautious to not fall into such traps.”

The group has cautioned the general public to not fall prey to electronic mail correspondences from such fraudsters utilizing free electronic mail providers corresponding to Gmail, Rediffmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and so on. and clarified that it solely corresponds with candidates by its official electronic mail IDs registered on its area.

It has warned that anybody corresponding with such fraudulent people or companies could be doing so at their very own threat. VPS Healthcare has additionally acknowledged that it could not settle for legal responsibility for any losses suffered by jobseekers in response to such pretend gives.

Sanjai Kumar, chief human sources officer at VPS Healthcare, mentioned: “Please word that we will not assume any accountability for jobseekers performing on employment gives not made instantly by VPS Healthcare. We, at VPS Healthcare,

observe a proper recruitment course of by our Human Resources Department and don’t solicit any fee from candidates as a pre-employment requirement. VPS Healthcare reserves the fitting to take authorized motion, together with felony motion, against such fraudulent people or entities.”

“If you will have inadvertently disclosed your private info or have obtained any suspicious supply, please notify instantly at [email protected] or [email protected],” the group added in its assertion.