THE Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Friday said it would take stringent measures to check the activities of scammers that swindle unsuspecting job seekers of large sums of money.
Mr. Gboyega Fola-Kayode, Special Assistant to the Comptroller-General of the service, Mr David Parradang, said this during an interview with news men in Abuja.
Fola-Kayode, who spoke for the comptroller-general, was reacting to a case of job scam reported by one of the 2015 recruitment applicants.
He said Parradang condemned the incident, saying that a lot of Nigerians had been swindled of large sums of money by scammers with promise of fake employment into various agencies and parastatals of government.
“ We are fully aware that job scammers are everywhere waiting for an opportunity to swindle unsuspecting, naïve and desperate job seekers.
“This is why we clearly stated when we advertised various openings for job placement into the service that no applicant seeking employment should offer money to anyone.