The Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday that fraudsters pretending to be from public broadcaster TDM had attempted to cheat a mainlander out of money by claiming that he had been hired as an IT technician by the company and telling him to pay 6,890 yuan (8,480 patacas) to obtain a work visa in Macau.
According to the statement, the Judiciary Police were recently notified by TDM that a mainlander had phoned the company asking about a TDM online job recruitment programme in the mainland.
According to the statement, the mainlander told TDM that he had submitted a job application for a Java programmer on a social media account of the “Macau Television Station”, after which he received a job offer letter with a company chop from the station online, stating that he had been hired as a Java programmer for a monthly salary of 25,000 patacas and free housing to be provided by the broadcaster.
According to the statement, a “job offer letter” told the mainlander to send his personal information to an email address so that the broadcaster could obtain a work visa in Macau for him, telling him to pay 6,890 yuan for the visa fee. The mainlander phoned TDM to confirm whether he had been hired by the company, the PJ statement said.
According to the PJ statement, TDM staff told the mainlander over the phone that the company had never run any job recruitment programmes in the mainland.
The statement said that the police have so far not received any reports about anyone having paid the bogus fees in order to land a TDM job.
Meanwhile, TDM confirmed the case in a statement yesterday, which said that the “job offer letter” had nothing to do with the company.
The TDM statement clarified that it will not offer any jobs without going through a proper recruitment process.
TDM is owned by the Macau government.
This picture released by the Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday shows the bogus job offer letter from “Macau Television Station”.
