Help me please, is this a scam?

I receive email about job offer and here is it...

From:
AFROJOBRECRUITERSINTERNATIONA AFROJOBRECRUITERSINTERNATIONA

Attention
This is to inform you that that you have been offered a job at KORLEBU TEACHING HOSPITAL GHANA as an expatriate nurse and the salary is 7,500usd monthly with accommodation and an official car, you have to be here in 19th march to for interview and resumption of duty contact Micheal at [email protected] for your cable visa ,resident permit and working permit the travel agent will charge and procure resident permit and working permit for you
once again
Congratulations, send your cv immediately
Best Regards
James Mensah

i was so confuse when i receive this email because of the salary offer is so high, and because im a desperate to have a job i answer it and send my CV, after an hour i receive an email and a call but this time including the payment that i need to pay...

this is the reply...
PROVIDE US WITH THIS IMMEDIATELY SO THAT YOU CAN BE HERE
ATTENTION
THE JOB IS STILL OPEN IF YOU CAN BE ABLE TO BE HERE BY NEXT WEEK MONDAY 28TH MARCH 2011 FOR INTERVIEW AND RESUMPTION OF DUTY , IN OTHER TO FACILITATE THAT FASTER YOU HAVE TO SEND US YOUR SCANNED COPY OF YOUR PICTURE SIDE OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT FOR YOUR CABLE VISA,RESIDENT PERMIT AND WORKING PERMIT , OUR JOB AT GLOBAL TRAVEL AND TOUR IS TO PROVIDE CABLE VISA, RESIDENT PERMIT AND WORKING PERMIT FOR THE NUMEROUS EXPATRIATE STAFF RECRUITED BY AFRO JOB RECRUITERS FOR DIFFERENT COMPANIES AND HOSPITALS HERE IN GHANA , HAVING SAID THAT YOU HAVE TO SEND US YOUR SCANNED COPY OF INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT THE PICTURE SIDE THROUGH OUR EMAIL SO THAT WE CAN PROCURE THE CABLE VISA FOR YOU UNDER 48HRS THESE ARE THE FEES YOU ARE REQUIRED TO PAY FOR THE PROCESSING OF YOUR CABLE VISA, RESIDENT PERMIT AND WORKING PERMIT.
(1)CABLE VISA PROCUREMENT FEES...,450USD
(2)RESIDENT PERMIT..............................300USD
(3)WORKING PERMIT...............................250USD
TOTAL =1000USD
YOU HAVE TO SEND THE MONEY THROUGH WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER WITH THE NAME OF OUR MESSENGER IN THE OFFICE(HUMPHERY EDWARDS) OR IF THERE IS NO WESTERN UNION IN YOUR PLACE YOU CAN USE MONEYGRAM WE PREFER WESTERN UNION OR MONEY GRAM
ON RECEIPT OF THE SCANNED COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT AND THE PROCESSING FEES OF ABOVE MENTIONED THINGS OF 1000USD WE WILL BEGIN THE PROCESSING AND IT SHALL BE READY UNDER 48 HOURS
SO THAT YOU CAN MEET UP WITH THE DATE OF 28TH MARCH 2011

FAITHFULLY YOURS
MICHEAL .E.

i am worried if this a scam because i send my CV to this person... thanks for the help

Welcome to Scamwarners Althy18, and you are correct to suspect that it's a scam - it is.

The only place you can obtain a visa is by applying to the Ghanaian Embassy in your own country and they'll want to see your original passport, not a scan.

Governments and companies don't use Western Union, but scammers do, and notice how they aren't very interested in your qualifications or skills but are very clear about how to send them money. Have they mentioned what your duties will be ? - theatre nurse, infectious diseases. This is not the way hospitals recruit staff, and the ridiculous salary is more like what a nurse could earn in the Middle East, but you wouldn't get a job like that this way.

Internet job offers where you have to pay money to get the job are usually scams. They make the salary high as they never intend to pay it.

I'm sorry, but there is no job and any money you send will go straight in to a scammer's pocket.

A scammer can't do a lot with your CV and I wouldn't worry about that

Hi Althy. Have you read the pinned posts about identifying a scam? I think you'll see a lot of similarities with what to look for and what you have here.

You don't say where you are located. If this is a for a country foreign to you, that's a clue. (It does say the salary is for an expatriate nurse.)

Do you want to go to Ghana?

Are you are nurse? That's another clue.

The "from" name is incomplete (InternationA), which to me, is another clue. If you can post the headers, others can help you identify more information about the sender, and identify more clues.

The email address to reply to is generic (yahoo) and not the sending company - a HUGE clue.

If the salary is "so high" that's another clue.

That they want money wired to them through WU or MG is another HUGE clue.

Personally, I keep looking locally. Don't send them anything else. They can't do much with your address except spam you. It's when they get your identification numbers & perhaps picture that your identity can be stolen.

You might want to look at LifeLock.com to learn more about identity theft in the US.

So many clues...very little to indicate they are valid.

Go figure.

MotherLode

I receive email about job offer and here is it...

From:
AFROJOBRECRUITERSINTERNATIONA AFROJOBRECRUITERSINTERNATIONA

Attention
This is to inform you that that you have been offered a job at KORLEBU TEACHING HOSPITAL GHANA as an expatriate nurse and the salary is 7,500usd monthly with accommodation and an official car, you have to be here in 19th march to for interview and resumption of duty contact Micheal at [email protected] for your cable visa ,resident permit and working permit the travel agent will charge and procure resident permit and working permit for you
once again
Congratulations, send your cv immediately
Best Regards
James Mensah

i was so confuse when i receive this email because of the salary offer is so high, and because im a desperate to have a job i answer it and send my CV, after an hour i receive an email and a call but this time including the payment that i need to pay...

this is the reply...
PROVIDE US WITH THIS IMMEDIATELY SO THAT YOU CAN BE HERE
ATTENTION
THE JOB IS STILL OPEN IF YOU CAN BE ABLE TO BE HERE BY NEXT WEEK MONDAY 28TH MARCH 2011 FOR INTERVIEW AND RESUMPTION OF DUTY , IN OTHER TO FACILITATE THAT FASTER YOU HAVE TO SEND US YOUR SCANNED COPY OF YOUR PICTURE SIDE OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT FOR YOUR CABLE VISA,RESIDENT PERMIT AND WORKING PERMIT , OUR JOB AT GLOBAL TRAVEL AND TOUR IS TO PROVIDE CABLE VISA, RESIDENT PERMIT AND WORKING PERMIT FOR THE NUMEROUS EXPATRIATE STAFF RECRUITED BY AFRO JOB RECRUITERS FOR DIFFERENT COMPANIES AND HOSPITALS HERE IN GHANA , HAVING SAID THAT YOU HAVE TO SEND US YOUR SCANNED COPY OF INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT THE PICTURE SIDE THROUGH OUR EMAIL SO THAT WE CAN PROCURE THE CABLE VISA FOR YOU UNDER 48HRS THESE ARE THE FEES YOU ARE REQUIRED TO PAY FOR THE PROCESSING OF YOUR CABLE VISA, RESIDENT PERMIT AND WORKING PERMIT.
(1)CABLE VISA PROCUREMENT FEES...,450USD
(2)RESIDENT PERMIT..............................300USD
(3)WORKING PERMIT...............................250USD
TOTAL =1000USD
YOU HAVE TO SEND THE MONEY THROUGH WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER WITH THE NAME OF OUR MESSENGER IN THE OFFICE(HUMPHERY EDWARDS) OR IF THERE IS NO WESTERN UNION IN YOUR PLACE YOU CAN USE MONEYGRAM WE PREFER WESTERN UNION OR MONEY GRAM
ON RECEIPT OF THE SCANNED COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT AND THE PROCESSING FEES OF ABOVE MENTIONED THINGS OF 1000USD WE WILL BEGIN THE PROCESSING AND IT SHALL BE READY UNDER 48 HOURS
SO THAT YOU CAN MEET UP WITH THE DATE OF 28TH MARCH 2011

FAITHFULLY YOURS
MICHEAL .E.

i am worried if this a scam because i send my CV to this person... thanks for the help

http://www.ehow.com/facts_6307539_information-nursing-ghana_-africa.html

Nursing is not a lucrative career in Ghana. According to a Ghanaian nurse now based in the United Kingdom, her salary was not enough to buy a bicycle or house.

Many nurses opt to leave the country and seek employment in the United Kingdom or the United States where they can earn a better salary and provide for themselves and family members they left behind.

It is also illegal to work as a nurse in Ghana without a license, and to gain that you must pass examinations in Ghana.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6953258_do-nursing-field-ghana_-africa_.html

Without a license you cannot gain employment as a nurse in Ghana. Under the Nurses and Midwives Decree of 1972 (NRCD 117, Section 25c), "Any person who isn't a Registered Nurse, but practices or professes to practice or publishes his/her name as a practicing nurse or midwife shall be guilty of an offense and can face fining or imprisonment."

The scammer is only interested in stealing your money, and can't even go to the effort of making his scam believable. He just wants easy money. I could quote further detail but it could help the scammer improve his scam if he views this forum.

hi gomerpyle and motherload,

yes i also have a doubt when i didn't see the qualification for the job and also im not yet a R.N,thats why i become confused about it, thanks to both of you, you enlightened me....

Again i would like to thank you both for giving me an advise, i do suspect that this is a scam, when it ask me for payment, i just want to check if im right that i received scam letter, and to also to know if he can use my data info on my CV.... as what u said that i would not have to worry about it, now im little relive about this situation....

Thank you Very Much.... Althy18