It said some fraudsters had taken advantage of the ongoing national recruitment exercise of the Service, to lure some Ghanaians to pay and be recruited through a ‘protocol system’.

It has thus the public against taking up such fake offers.

It said the scammers in some cases urged the unsuspecting persons to pay between GH¢ 3,000.00 and GH¢ 6,000.00 to be guaranteed a place in the Immigration Service as part of the third phase of the Service’s ongoing recruitment exercise.

“The attention of Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has been drawn to a recruitment scam where unscrupulous individuals pretending to represent the GIS are calling applicants concerning the ongoing 2017/2018 GIS Recruitment Exercise to have their names placed in fictitious ‘protocol lists’ at a fee.”

“These individuals introduce themselves as staff of GIS, indicating that they have applicants’ documents in front of them, and that, they did not make it into the final list of those to be enlisted. In some cases, applicants are asked to pay an amount to undergo the third phase of the Recruitment Exercise – medical screening.”

After extending the fictitious offer of assisting them to gain enlisted into the Service, these individuals ask for payment ranging between GH¢3,000.00 and GH¢6,000.00,” the Immigration Service said in a statement.

“We don’t call applicants on phone”

The Immigration Service noted that, it will never make calls to applicants, and does not ask for direct payment from them to enlist them.

“All applicants and the general public should be aware that the GIS will not place a call to any applicant and will never ask applicants for any direct payment to gain enlisted into the GIS. Prospective applicants are therefore advised not to send money to any individual.

Moreover, the 2017/2018 GIS Recruitment Exercise is still under its second phase and qualified applicants who successfully pass the Aptitude Test will be shortlisted and contacted via Short Message Services (SMS) and emails as well as names posted on the GIS website: www.joingis.com,” it said.

‘Recruitment process transparent’

The Service insisted that, its recruitment process is transparent, hence no individual or group can claim to assist anyone to be recruited into the Immigration Service.

“It must be noted that no individual or group of persons can help anybody since the process is as transparent as possible….The GIS hereby wishes to admonish all applicants and the general public to ignore such calls and be weary of fraudsters who put up such calls in the name of the Ghana Immigration Service. Any applicant who pays money in relation to the ongoing 2017/2018 GIS Recruitment Exercise does so at his/her own risk,” it noted.

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By: citifmonline.com/Ghana

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The Immigration Service in a statement signed by its Head of Public Affairs, Michael Amoako-Attah, said its attention “has been drawn to a purported recruitment exercise which has gone viral on social media.”

According to the statement, the GIS has “not embarked on any recruitment exercise neither has it engaged the services of any persons to conduct any recruitment exercise on its behalf as being purported in sections of the media.”

The Immigration Service advised the general public to ignore the information which it suggests are scams being perpetuated by some fraudsters in the country.

“Consequently, the general public is hereby informed that any recruitment exercise to be conducted by the Service will be duly advertised in the national dailies and also on the official website of the Service,” he statement said.

Some fraudsters constantly target the Immigration Service as well as other security agencies to perpetuate their crimes.

They pose as recruitment agents and lure unsuspecting jobless Ghanaians to pay sums of money to them with the promise of securing their recruitment into the agencies.

After confirming receipt of payments, the fraudsters cut communication with their victims.

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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