German embassy urges Polish job-seekers beware of bogus employment offer

The German embassy in Warsaw warned Poles yesterday that advertisements promising German jobs and visas in return for cash had been placed by swindlers seeking to exploit desperate jobseekers. "Attention! This is an audacious fraud," the embassy warned Polish citizens in a statement. Consular officials discovered the scam after being inundated by phone calls from people who had seen the adverts, embassy spokesman Rainer Rudolph said. Visa-seekers who answered the advert called a number in Germany and were referred to a Polish mobile phone number. They were then sent a fake letter purporting to be from the German embassy asking for a visa issue fee of euro 35 to be paid into a Polish bank. (Reuters)