Another Dubai medical group raises job scam alert

Dubai London Clinic says fraudulent job offers being sent out to medical professionals in the name of the clinic

After a UAE based medical group reported a job scam targeting top doctors last month, another medical entity has come forward with the same claims.
The Dubai London Clinic has said that fraudulent job offers were being sent out to medical professionals using the name of the clinic.

Dubai Police set trap to nab criminals DUBAI - Fraudsters are targeting unemployed people who search websites to get a job, according to Saeed Al Hajiri, Director of General Department of Cyber Crimes of the Dubai Police. Al Hajiri, said that some fraudsters and companies are targeting unemployed people who searched websites to get a job. "The cheaters set traps to trick them," Al Hajiri said, adding that scammers are causing huge losses to jobseekers as they ask them to pay money to process fees to convince that their job offer is serious. Al Hajiri said that cheaters are taking advantage of social media and emails to carry out their fraud plans. He added that victims of job scams paid money as they have no doubts in the offers as the work contract seem to be real. "Cheaters also use logos of famous companies," he added. He warned people from falling into this trap run by unknown people or companies or unreliable recruitment offices. Al Hajiri said that police has received several similar complaints. "We have launched investigations and set traps to arrest the criminals." Last year the Dubai police arrested last year a gang that offers jobs on the internet. He said that some gangs advertise online that they want people who can work from home against commissions and then they ask them to open bank account in order to send laundered money to them. He said that people who accept these type of jobs will be legally responsible. Separately, he urged people also to avoid answering phones calls that tell them that they have won prizes. "This is fraud." In 2015, the Dubai Police registered last year 361 cybercrimes while 160 people were referred to court including 43 fraud cases. amira@khaleejtimes.com

Scammers are sending out professionally designed job offer letters asking 'potential candidates' to pay Dh5,000 as visa processing fee in exchange for a salary package of anywhere between Dh35,000 to 50,000 plus a wide range of benefits.
The Dubai London Clinic is the second medical group to report such an elaborate scam.
Last month, the Aster DM Healthcare group had issued an alert saying that the group does not charge for appointing staff after a number of medical professionals enquired about the jobs purportedly offered by the Aster group.
This is the second time that the Dubai London Clinic has been targeted by the fraudsters.
"The fraudsters used the name of Dubai London Clinic a year ago as well," said Bharat Ratteshwar, Executive Director of the Dubai London Group, told Khaleej Times.
"But this time they have gone a step ahead and developed a website about the group with listings of doctors in Abu Dhabi as well as the jobs on offer," he said.
However, the website www.dubailondonspeciality.com is no longer accessible.
While the scammers ensure that jobs are offered to people who are not well aware of UAE laws, a number of local doctors have been targeted too.
"We learnt of the scam when a few locally based doctors got in touch with us claiming that we had sent them job offer letters," said Bharat.
"They also said that they were asked to transfer Dh5,000 to an account for visa processing," he added.
Bharat, however, said that since the scammers were in touch with the candidates directly, it was not clear if anyone had taken the bait and paid up.
An official from the Aster Group said that candidates have been offered positions like regional rehabilitation manager, psychiatric counselor, senior executives marketing, HR manager, admin and HR related job, medical officer, consultants and doctors among others.
The group said that fraudulent online recruitment activity was misusing Aster's name in various countries including India, Pakistan, Philippines, New Zealand and Zimbabwe.
Letters were being provided by these fraudulent operators with promise of jobs on behalf of Aster Hospital, Mankhool, Aster Clinic and other business entities of Aster DM Healthcare.
Ratnesh, Chief Human Resource Officer at the group, said that candidates should watch out for such frauds and evaluate such offers very diligently.
"We will not charge any processing fee or any other fees from any prospective candidate. If prospective candidates are asked to deposit any such fee or personal details, they should share the information with the group immediately," he said.
Khaleej Times was unable to contact anyone on the numbers listed on the offer letters.
Both the groups have lodged complaints with the Dubai Health Authority, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority as well the Dubai Police Cyber Crime Cell.
While most of the domains where the emails originate from have been blocked, the cases are still being investigated.
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