"Direct Work Visa": Man Pays N30 Million to Get Canadian Travel Documents, Discovers it is Fake

"Direct Work Visa": Man Pays N30 Million to Get Canadian Travel Documents, Discovers it is Fake

  • After paying the whopping sum of N30 million for a work visa in Canada, a Nigerian man discovered he had been scammed
  • The man's sad story was shared by Grandma Shasha, a travel advisor who also posted the document online
  • Shasha advised people to be careful not to engage fake agents who would take their hard-earned money and not deliver

A man who paid N30 million for a direct work visa to Canada was disappointed after discovering an agent played a fast one on him.

The painful story of how the man lost such a huge amount was shared on TikTok by a travel advisor, Grandma Shasha.

Man loses N30 million to fake visa agents.
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Shasha shared an image of the visa, which she insisted was fake, and showed people how to spot the difference from a genuine Canadian visa.

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She said a visa agent did a dirty job, taking the client's money without delivering as expected.

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Her words:

"An agent scammed a client of N30 million for this direct work visa."

Netizens who saw the video marvelled at the amount the man lost to scammers who promised him a Canadian visa.

See the video below:

Reactions as man loses N30 million to fake visa agent

@Onyeukwu K Sebastine said:

"I swear the agent and his or her family go go down."

@adetolawaziri commented:

"Any visa you did not go and take by yourself at the embassy is fake."

Another man loses N15 million

In a related story, Legit.ng reported that a man lost N15 million to a fake visa agent.

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The man sold his two cars and a parcel of land he inherited from his father to raise the money to travel to Canada.

But it appeared his dreams would not come true because the person doing the visa for him disappeared without a trace.

Victims of visa scam stranded in the UK

In another story, Legit.ng reported that a large number of Nigerians had sadly become victims of visa scams in their struggle to travel abroad.

The victims paid millions of naira only to get denied into the United Kingdom upon their arrival at the airport.

This sad revelation reiterated the urgent need for well-designed measures to combat visa scams.

Source: Legit.ng

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Israel Usulor (Human-Interest editor) Israel Usulor is a journalist who has 9 years of experience. He worked at The Prime Newspaper and has published articles in TheCable Newspaper. Israel graduated with distinction from Fidei Polytechnic (Mass Commun, 2016). Israel has interviewed Zannah Mustapha, the man who helped negotiate the release of Chibok Girls, and Kunle Adeyanju, who rode a bike from London to Lagos. He covered exclusive stories on Chef Dami during her Guinness World Records cookathon. Email: israel.usulor@corp.legit.ng.

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