Details: How Travel Agents Con Africans Seeking Opportunities Abroad
- A lady was duped in the year 2012 when she wanted to process her work visa and relocate to the UK
- The lady, Jumtel, shared her story in a TikTok post, noting that she was duped KSh 1.4 million by a visa agent
- Jumtel was applying for a UK skilled worker visa, but she did not get one after paying the huge amount to the agent
A Nigerian lady who wanted to relocate to the UK lost KSh 1.4 million to a work visa agent.
The lady said she did not get UK job as promised by the visa agent. Photos: @iamjumtel and Getty Images/Bloomberg. Source: UGC
How did UK travel agent con African lady?
The lady, Jumtel, came out to tell her story years after the ugly event rendered her penniless.
Jumtel noted in a TikTok post that she wanted to travel to the UK as a skilled worker, so she got an agent to help her process the travel documents and job.
She was introduced to a company where she was supposedly being trained in preparation for work in the UK.
Jumtel noted that she was thinking she would be out of Nigeria within three months but for a whole year, nothing happened.
She said the woman who was training them was supposed to help them get jobs in the UK so they could obtain a skilled worker visa.
After a year, it became clear to Jumtel that the woman was not going to get any job despite all the preparations for the interview.
That was how she lost the money.
The woman who was processing the job for them blocked everyone, and she returned to square one.
Unfortunately for Jumtel, she had resigned from her job that was paying her KSh 8,000 hoping she would soon get a job and a visa to move to the UK.
Jumtel later successfully moved to the UK after following the right channel and getting a job and UK visa.
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Despite staying in Canada for 20 years, he said that he could only get two properties when he went home.
Many TikTokers people were divided into a group who supported him and those who said Canada was still far better.