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AustraliaAgent in Colombo charging Rs. 450,000 for a "guaranteed" 482
Writing this anonymously because the office is close to where I work. The pitch: pay Rs. 450,000 up front, they have a "partner employer" in Queensland, sponsorship is guaranteed, visa in three months. They showed a printed nomination approval with an employer name on it. I asked for the employer name so I could check the sponsor register myself. They refused, said it was confidential until payment. That is the whole tell. An approved sponsor is a public fact and any real one will let you verify it. A friend of mine paid. Four months later there was no nomination, no employer, and the phone number had changed. He has not got the money back. If an agent will not name the sponsor, walk out.
United KingdomFake Health and Care Worker sponsorship, GBP 4,000 gone
Anonymous for obvious reasons. My cousin lost this money and I am posting so nobody else does. The setup: a WhatsApp contact claiming to represent a care home group in the Midlands. Professional-looking CoS document, a real care home name lifted from Companies House, and an invoice for GBP 4,000 described as a "sponsorship processing fee". Two things were wrong and we only saw them afterwards: 1. It is illegal for a sponsor to charge a worker the sponsor licence fee or the Immigration Skills Charge. If somebody asks you to pay those, it is not a real sponsorship. 2. The CoS number did not exist. You can check a certificate number, and a genuine sponsor will not mind you checking. The real care home had no idea their name was being used.