Fake Hospital Offering Jobs

A non-existent hospital, claiming to be located in Al Ain, is offering jobs across the globe.

Called General Dubai Hospital, individuals behind this fraud scheme have put up a website — www.generalhospitaldubai.org — providing detailed information about the hospital.

But in doing so, they have duplicated the Web information, including the post box number, of a genuine private hospital in Al Ain, Oasis Hospital.

An official at Oasis Hospital said they were aware of the fraudulent website.

"We came to know of it a month back when we started receiving calls from people. We have reported the case to the police and the CID department."

The hospital has posted a warning on its website.

The fraudulent website is almost an exact copy of Oasis Hospital's online site but with a different set of contact details.

The telephone and fax numbers are in mobile format – and were switched off when XPRESS tried to contact them. The con artists left the post box number of Oasis Hospital unchanged.

Other notable changes from the original involved those where the real name of the hospital in the content has been replaced by ‘General Dubai Hospital'.

The fictional hospital is not only offering job openings but is also sending out offer letters.

Dr Tony H., an Indian doctor in Saudi Arabia, received one such offer letter in August from Gen-eral Dubai Hospital, but he said the offer was too good to be true.

"I was offered a salary of nearly $10,000 [Dh36,700] per month, a five-room flat in Dubai, and a 2006 model Camry, among others.

"But the most incredulous part was that the letter said there would be only five working hours in a day. That's just not practical and I felt it had to be a hoax."

To confirm his suspicion, Dr Tony went to the website of General Hospital Dubai as mentioned on the offer letter and found that the board in front of the picture of the hospital read as National Hospital Dubai and not General Hospital Dubai.

The offer letter sent to Dr Tony said new recruits would have to bear the cost of clearing papers and permits through a "Dubai Travelling Agency", but promised they would be reimbursed later.

When XPRESS called up the travel agency, the line was constantly busy.