{"id":6299,"date":"2018-10-26T06:18:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2018-10-26T06:18:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:18:29","slug":"job-applicants-warned-vs-fake-cruise-ship-job-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/6299-job-applicants-warned-vs-fake-cruise-ship-job-offers.html","title":{"rendered":"Job Applicants Warned vs Fake Cruise Ship Job Offers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino job seekers applying for cruise ship positions have been warned of the recurrence of a scam targeting applicants for employment aboard cruise ships after a scam of such nature has been detected.<\/p>\n<p>The fraudulent operation begins with an e-mail from someone claiming to represent a major company such as Carnival Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, Disney Cruise Line, MSC Cruises, P&amp;O Cruises, etc. The recruiter guarantees the target person a job with a cruise ship, in exchange for paying a fee upfront. After receiving payment from the victim, the scammer vanishes with the supposed job offer.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most important things to remember when looking for employment in a cruise ship is that you should never pay any fee, including recruitment and placement fees. Legitimate manning agencies and cruise lines are not allowed to charge administrative fees from seafarers.<\/p>\n<p>Cruise ship job scams tend to feature the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jobs are advertised on free websites and social media. Scammers would not pay advertisement for jobs that do not exist<\/li>\n<li>Emails are sent from free email accounts such as Yahoo and Gmail.<\/li>\n<li>The correspondence is in poor English and very informal<\/li>\n<li>Scammers are reportedly operating from countries such as Malaysia, Ghana, Nigeria, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The job offers are usually very generous (high salaries, short working hours, long paid holidays, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>No thorough interviews with candidates<\/li>\n<li>The job offer is for free, but asks payment for visa, training, or lawyer fee<\/li>\n<li>Expected payment is requested through MoneyGram or Western Union<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once applicants are offered jobs that appear too good to be true, they should stay away at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino job seekers applying for cruise ship positions have been warned of the recurrence of a scam targeting applicants for employment aboard cruise ships after a scam of such nature has been detected. The fraudulent operation begins with an e-mail from someone claiming to represent a major company such as Carnival Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-job-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinoy-ofw.com\/jobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}