Our attention has been drawn to the recruitment activities of Gilberts Group by job seekers who queried our verification process and demanded to know the authenticity of the job we posted for the said company. We thought it necessary to make a disclaimer.
Gilberts Group claims to be a legendary construction company and one of Canada’s largest and most respected engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies, executing some of the biggest and most challenging projects in the country, including multi-billion dollar facilities and facility modification projects in Alberta’s oilsands.
Below is a report by an applicant:
I applied for Hydraulic Mechanical Engineer with Gilberts Group on 14/02/2019.They sent me an sms.They are asking me to apply for canada visa with 79Euro Whe i have not even done interview.Is this not a scam? Does jobzilla advertise scam jobs? Below is the message.
Hello,
Thank you for applying for our open position. We are checking your provided documentation and you will receive a phone call interview from our Human Resources Department in 5 days.
Gilberts Group is currently looking to hire more than 300 foreign employees that will be able to work in Canada.
We also offer employment opportunities that are available in various job positions and careers with competitive salaries and work environment.Meanwhile, kindly register to the link below to check your Visa Application Eligibility and also for further directives.
https://account.canadalovesyou.com/register?s=gilbertsgroup16
Another report:
I received 2 phone calls from Gilberts group’s HR, for the first call the number was hidden and the other one was from mr Daniel, Via 07019671234 last week. The call lasted for a about 25 to 30 minutes And he asked me real interview questions. He said if I passed they would reply me and before the end of February 2019. I got an email and a call +12892033940 from Gilberts group today the 27th of February 2019 of a job offer,that I have five days to start my visa processing. Below is the email:
From:
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Gilberts Group Job Offer
To: xxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.comDear Samuel,
We were all very excited to know you and we have been impressed with your background. With reference to your application and subsequent phone interview, we are pleased to offer you employment in Gilberts Group, Ontario, Canada for the position of Hydraulic Mechanical Engineer. This is a full time position, Monday to Friday, 9(Nine) hours daily (30 Min ( 2- breaks) and 40 (Forty) Hours per week. Please note that Gilberts Group is an at-will employer. That means that either you or Gilberts Group are free to end the employment relationship at any time, with notice or cause.
We will be offering you a monthly gross salary of CAD 4890. You will also have medical reimbursement, one year free accomodation (not applicable for family members), health and insurance plan, corporate mobile or travel expenses and 30 days of paid vacation per year.
At starting date, you will be asked to sign a contract that will be valid for a period of three years from the date of joining and is extendable after the completion of three years. This contract can be terminated by either party on given three months’ notice in writing or deduction of salary equivalent to 3 months in lieu of the notice period in probationary period of 2 years. In case of termination of employment by the employer on disciplinary grounds no notice period or compensation in lieu of the notice period is required to be given.
You are required to join the company by 3 months period as soon as you complete your visa processing with Canada Loves You and you have to bear the visa expenses on your own budget.
We would like to have your response by the next 5 business days. In the meantime, please feel free to contact me or my Human Resources Assistant via email hr@gilbertsgroup.com, should you have any questions. Also keep us updated regarding your Visa Application Process.
We are all looking forward to having you on our team.
Best regards,
Erin Simmons
Gilberts Group Head HR Manager
Address: Street 271C Luker Street, Mississauga, CA
Website: https://gilbertsgroup.com/
After thorough analysis, we have come to the following conclusive points:
- It is very suspicious to get a job offer abroad by merely speaking with the interviewer over the phone who gives you an ultimatum to start visa processing through a particular website – canadalovesyou.com
- From the information we have gathered, all communications with them have only been via phone and email. There’s no known Nigerian representative. That’s a red flag.
- The €79 charge for Visa processing seems to be a trap. When asked to pay, an applicant informed them that he already has a Canadian Visa and they immediately ended the call on him.
- The 5-day ultimatum on visa processing is a form of pressure.
- It’s only rational to ask to meet an applicant for proper recognition and documentation before visa processing. Prioritizing payment over everything is a strong indication of fraud.
- A company in a developed country such as Canadian that claims to have been in operation since 1983, executing some of the biggest and most challenging projects in the country, including multi-billion dollar facilities should have had a website before 2019. A quick run of “Whois Gilberts Group” indicates that the website domain was registered on the 25th of January 2019. Even the Canada loves you website is relatively in its infant stage. Fishy huh?
- Their “Employment Letter” contains juicy baits to lure you into parting with your money. Typical of scam mails.
Please be aware that Jobzilla Nigeria in no way endorses Gilberts Group or any of its activities. Consequently, henceforth, we will desist from posting job vacancies from Gilberts Group until further notice.
We urge you to always speak out on your unpleasant experiences with employers. This will help save other unsuspecting applicants from the preying hands of scammers.
Tell us what you know about Gilberts Group in the comments section.
I also received a call from them yesterday (19-03-19) via this number +12892033940 and was interviewed. The interview lasted for about 10min. The interviewer concluded by saying the company will get back to me via email within 3days. She went ahead to tell me about the Canada visa, terms and conditions of work, salary level etc.
While all this was going on, I believed everything she said. Hours after the interview, I discussed it with a bosom friend in depth, then we started observing / seeing reasons to disbelief the whole thing and to seek caution while following their next instructions.
I think it is the duties of all job sites to authenticate any job before ppsting it to the public.
I personally got this posting from ngcareer’s with location as Lagos. After wish, I got an E-mail of an interview date with Canada as location. I wrote to ngcareer’s of the change of location and the authenticity of the job posting and the job offer before proceeding to paying the immigration fee, but till date I have not receive a repond from them. Though I have paid the EUR79, now they are talking about document verification fee of either EUR 600, 800, and 1200 per package, and I’m sure, I am not the only victim.
Please do good to always verified a job posting to safe the public from entering wrong hand.
Thanks and more grace to your elbow.
Please accept our sincere apologies for your sad experience. Thank you for reporting this.
Please be aware that we try as much as possible to verify the authenticity of all jobs that we publish on Jobzilla. However, sometimes, because we’re only human, some scammers slip through the net using new schemes; and the only way we can fish them out and blacklist them is when people like you speak out.
We urge all job seekers to always speak out on any suspected foul play or unpleasant experiences with ’employers’. This will help save other unsuspecting job applicants from the preying hands of scammers.
For the sake of awareness, I’ll stick this post to the top of our home page for the next couple of days. €79 (more than N30,000) is a lot of money to lose to scammers.
Once again, on behalf of all job sites who published Gilberts Group job vacancies, we’re deeply sorry.
I received an employment offer from them last month after i have applied for civil engineering position, through jobzilla. I searched up the company, got their website and emailed them to verify if it was authentic since i have never experienced where visa is a prerequisite for employment. They reply confirming it’s authentic but i just ignored it because something didn’t feel right.
I am glad that the likes of Jobzilla exist in Nigeria.
Thanks for not just pointing that out, but sing your featured section to ensure that wel-meaning jobseekers get the information on time.
Your work has in turns blessed so much people who search for Jobs in Nigeria.
Agim Joy
Just got similar emails and phone interviews..
Thanks wont fall a victim
I got the same offer but the process has come forward, I was skeptic too in the beginning but I confirmed that it’s authentic too and carried on and everything is going very well so far did the medical examination in Lagos and now soon I am anxious to wait the reply for my application
Ekpo Usang and others
I wasn’t even going to reply to what you said but then the frustration of the nonsense of your comment made me to.
I am in Canada and I have come here through an agency and I have paid not 600, 800 or 1200 but the minimum of the verification of the documents was 750 EUROS (and not only) so please If you didn’t know that to come to Canada you need to pay an amount and you need a good amount of money don’t go and say these things about others.
I don’t know these two companies that you are talking but from what I saw in their website I wish could have known them sooner so I could save some money!
NOT TRUE AT AL!!!
Adaeze Gboliwe and Adedayo please am in verification stage .kindly help me out
Adaeze Gboliwe and Adedayo please i need your contact am in verification stage here is mine 08039438547.
The guy that said he’s in canada should announce the name of the agency that took him with £600 and he should kindly tell us the kind of job he is doing
Another Scam:
I am pleased to extend the following job offer to you on behalf of Villa
Bros Construction. You have been selected as the best candidate for the
IT Infrastructure Manager position. Congratulations!
We believe that your knowledge, skills and experience would be an ideal
fit for our team. We hope you will enjoy your role and make a
significant contribution to the overall success of Villa Bros
Construction.
Please take the time to review our offer. It includes important details
about your compensation, benefits and the terms and conditions of your
anticipated employment with Villa Bros Construction.
Working hours
This is a full-time position requiring approximately 8 (eight) work
hours per day. Your regular weekly schedule will be from Monday to
Friday.
Compensation and Salary
Villa Bros Construction is offering you a salary of CAD 5280 per month.
You will be paid on a monthly basis.
Benefits
As an employee of Villa Bros Construction you will be eligible for
medical reimbursement, one-year free accommodation (not applicable for
family members), health and insurance plan, corporate mobile or travel
expenses and 30 days of paid vacation per year.
At the starting date, you will be asked to sign a contract that will be
valid for a period of three years from the date of joining and is
extendable after the completion of three years. In case of the
termination of employment by the employer on disciplinary grounds, no
notice period or compensation in lieu of the notice period is required
to be given.
You are required to join the company in a 3 months period of time after
you complete your VISA processing with Canada Loves and you have to bear
the visa expenses on your own budget.
We would like to have your response by the next 7 business days. In the
meantime, please feel free to contact our Recruitment Department via
email recruit@vbconstruct.com, should you have any questions. Also, keep
us updated regarding your Visa Application Process with Canada Loves.
Please follow the link below to get your Visa Application started:
https://account.canadaloves.io/register?s=vbconstruct
Sincerely,
Felix Martin
Recruitment Manager
Villa Bros Construction
Address: 2525 Carling Ave, Ottawa, ON K2B 7Z2, Canada
Website: https://vbconstruct.com/
And for sure at lot of kind of scam like this still on going all over the works.
Afeez of course it takes time to get an answer as my brother is in Canada and I know how the procedures work, but he recommended me the company so good things take time.
Hope I helped
http://www.canadalovesyou.com and http://www.canadalove.io are identical websites with same content being used by these people… Currently operating as Villa Bros Construction company. They called with +12046743128 for the extensive interview, a day later, it’s congratulatory call with a follow-up email similar to the ones shown above. While on the call, the network got bad and suddenly, in desperation, they called back with +2347061048369 and +2347063544882. That’s an organization that supposedly don’t have agents in Nigeria o… 🏃🏃🏃💨💨💨
Got same e-mail from villa bros construction after applying through ngcareers. discussed with a friend and we asked them few questions and the scam cam out.here is a few discuss with the said immigration agent;Dear Jessy,
I have once again observed that there are concerted efforts that are
being made to convince intending immigrants who may use your company
that ”canadaloves” and canadalovesyou are same since they now have
same site features but different support email.
If you are part of canadalovesyou then i contact you through the
official website but if not why would you operate in similitude with
them
In my previous mail i noticed some catchy resemblance between the 2
sites now there seams to be a total cloning of the site
”canadalovesyou.com by ”canadaloves.io
I am a very detailed person and this action depicts that you are no
longer to be trusted .and i’d rather stay here in Nigeria with my work
than deal with suspicious people.
Thank you
Kenneth Akobundu
Just got similar emails and phone interviews..
Thanks wont fall a victim
This wicked people are using our challenge of unemployment to dupe us… I got same phone call interview.
Their phone number is +12046743128.
Waiting for their mail
Is Canada loves you.com a scam ? I would really like to know? THEY TRYING TO ASK FOR ,MONEY TO PROCESS MY EMPLOYMENT DOCUMENTS.
rgds
Noel A. Calma
Received a call today from +12046743128. They interviewed me for almost 10 minutes, then they ask for 79£ that I will have to pay after job offer in next couple, if I got selected.
I know its a scam, thanks to all. I won’t be a victim.
I got the same call and interview. I had to go and talk to a visa expert in Port Harcourt to escape the scam. They will soon begin to reap the fruits of their seed like other fraudsters. They should be well prepared for the spiritual trouble when it starts.
What a shame…. This people are so bad. I got a similar Call and email. But in the email, something was just fishy. Take a look
Hello ,
It’s Kate Romano,
I’m one of the agents in the company and I will be in charge of your
immigration process.
We will help you with the paperwork and we will be responsible for
sending it to the Canadian Government for approval, and we will update
you accordingly through every step of the process!
Instructions to make the registration payment:
The link of the website: canadaloves.io (You should open the website
at your computer)
-Open the website and click at client login, at the top of the
website, at the right of your screen.
– Log in by filling your email address and your password in case you
don’t have an account created already Click on Register Then fill your
details there, so you can open your account and create a good
password.
-After this, your account will be opened and there you will see a box
where it says “SEND PAYMENT”. Click on it and it will direct you in
the ACCOUNT INFORMATION. Here you should fill (update) your address.
There complete your city, address and your postal code, Agree to terms
and conditions. Then click below this, where it says “PROCEED”.
-After doing this, you will see 2 different types of payments: VOGUE
and CREDIT CARD, if You have a Visa card select VOGUE if you have a
Mastercard select CREDIT CARD.
-At the deposit page you should fill all the card details carefully.
The details you have them all at your Card.
-So: 1- Your full name as its written at your card
2-The 16 digits number that you find it in front of your Card
3-Expiring date of your card (month and the year)
4-And the CVV (the 3 digits number that you can find it on
the back of your Card)
-After doing this and checking your details once again, Click on “PAY NOW”.
If anything goes wrong, please write me here. So I can give you my support.
Waiting for your response.
Kind Regards!
—
Kate Romano – Immigration Advisor
T: +1-204-674-3536