Last Updated: May 13, 2026
Fake job venues Nigeria job seekers are being sent to have cost thousands of people their savings, their safety, and sometimes their freedom. These are not vague online scams — they are physical addresses in Lagos and Abuja where real fraudsters operate real offices designed to look like legitimate companies. You receive a WhatsApp message or a call saying you have been shortlisted. You are given an address. You travel there. You discover a convincing office environment where people in suits pressure you to pay a registration fee, a training deposit, or a uniform charge before any genuine employment begins. In this post, you will find the full list of 41 confirmed fraudulent job addresses reported across Nigeria, an explanation of how these operations work, the red flags that identify every fake interview venue before you travel, and the exact steps to verify any job address before you leave your house.
Fake job venues Nigeria fraudsters operate are specifically more effective than purely online job scams for one critical reason: the physical office creates a level of credibility that no website or WhatsApp message can replicate. A job seeker who receives a WhatsApp shortlisting message and then physically visits an address that contains real furniture, real people wearing lanyards, and real-looking branded materials is far less likely to maintain scepticism than someone responding to a message alone. The physical environment is the fraud’s primary deception tool. Furthermore, physical offices allow operators to apply direct social pressure. Once you are inside the building, surrounded by other apparent candidates, and speaking with someone across a desk, the psychological cost of standing up and walking out is significantly higher than clicking away from a website. Fraudsters know this — and the physical office model persists because it works.
The following 41 addresses have been confirmed as fraudulent job operation venues through victim reports, EFCC alerts, and consumer protection documentation. If you have been sent to any of these addresses for a job interview or training session, do not proceed with any payment. Report the address and any contact details you have to the EFCC at efcc.gov.ng.
1. Plot 5, Voda Paint plc, University Press House, Fumec Bus stop off Adeniyi Jones, Ogba Lagos.
2. 3rd floor, 8 Thomas Salako Street, Ogba Bus Stop, Ikeja Lagos.
3. No 2, Sunday Street, off Ikorodu, Palmgrove, Lagos.
4. 65c Opebi Road, Opposite Glass House by Salvation Bus stop, Opebi, Ikeja, Lagos.
5. HYINSCO Office, No. 4, 2nd floor, upward Sanitas outlet, Alara Street, off Commercial Avenue, Onike, Sabo Yaba, Lagos.
6. Plot 5, University Press Building, along Industrial Road, Ogba, Lagos.
7. 4B, Ogungbeye Street, opposite African Shrine by Cadbury bus stop, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos.
8. Plot 14, Block A, Voda Paint, Surulere House, off Fumec bus stop, Surulere Industrial Road, Ogba, Lagos.
9. No 4, Ahl Ogungbeye Street off Amaraolu Road, opposite Mega Chicken bus stop by first gate, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos.
10. 1, Olabisi Close, Mende, Maryland, Lagos. Contact HR 08074645567.
11. 32, Olufemi Road, off Ogunlana Drive, Surulere, Lagos — operating under YDNJI.
12. Ajumobi Street, off Acme Road, Mega Chicken bus stop, Ikeja, Lagos.
13. 6, Deji Oyenuga Street, opposite Kehinde Odusote Estate, Anthony Village.
14. WESTCORP SERVICES LTD, 6, Deji Oyenuga Street, opposite Kehinde Odusote Estate, Anthony bus stop, Lagos.
15. SOAR GROUP, Suite 2, Ikosi Road, Oluyole bus stop, Oregun Ikeja, Lagos.
16. Boat House, 21, Ogunnusi Road, Axis bus stop, Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos.
17. 8, Bisi Ogabi Street, Balogun Awolowo Way, Ikeja, also listed as 8 Bisi Ogabi Street, off Allen bus stop, behind Watercress Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.
18. BSM Premises, No 4, Kareem Ogungbeye Estate, Agidingbi first gate bus stop.
19. 9, Oremeji Street, Isolo — also operating as Heathstream Alliance and Wellness Homes, beside Sunrise Microfinance Bank, Gbagada.
20. PSIS HR BOARD, L’Monarch Towers, 65, Opebi Road, opposite Glass House by Salvation Bus stop, Ikeja, Lagos. Contact 07010616106.
21. 6, Remilekun Street, off Falolu Road, by Akerele Road, Surulere — operating as HR Matrixglove. Contact 07080403158.
22. Ground floor, No 2, Akin Osiyemi Street, opposite Sterling Bank bus stop, Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos.
23. Global Resources, 19 Bode Thomas Road, Awoyokun/Onipanu bus stop.
24. 23, Ogunleti Street, off Ogudu Road, Ojota, Lagos.
25. Schleez Nigeria Limited, first floor, left wing, No 49, Olowu Street, off Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos.
26. 1st floor, Xpress House, beside Ostra Hotel and Halls, off Otunba Jobifele Way, Central Business District, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos.
27. 13, Ajumobi Olorounje Street, off Acme Road, first gate bus stop, Agidingbi, Ikeja.
28. 7, Obasa Road, Chemline Building, behind Forte Oil filling station, Oba Akran, Ikeja.
29. M.H.S, 4b Toyin Street, opposite Victory Home School, before Unity bus stop, Ikeja, Lagos.
30. 3rd Floor, 240 Herbert Macaulay Street, besides Sweet Sensation, Alagomeji bus stop, Yaba, Lagos.
31. 150b Oba Oguniyi Road, Ifako-Agege, Pencinema, beside Pythagoras College.
32. 3, Orishigun Street, Iyana-School bus stop, Ketu, Lagos.
33. 34, Abeokuta Street, off Anifowoshe Community, Ikeja.
34. Building 25, Ajayi Road, beside Olatunbosun Street, Oke-ira, Ogba, Lagos State.
35. 1, Olatunbosun Close, beside Adidde Supermarket, Ajayi Road, Ogba.
36. 4, Toyin Street, Ikeja.
37. No. 3, Orishigun Street, Lapo Bank Building, 2nd Floor, Ketu, Lagos.
38. 6, UBIAJA CRESCENT, Garki 2, Abuja. Contact 08159694497.
39. LS-RESOURCE, 3rd floor, Crownet Plaza, Idris Gidado Street, Wuye, Abuja.
40. 129, Okota Road, Atinuke Plaza, beside Rainoil filling station, Cele bus stop, off Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, Lagos. Contact 08130902820.
41. Dream Land Enterprises Limited, No 114, Ijiolu Close, Elekahia Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. REF NO GS/SD/70.
Understanding how these operations work in practice gives you the context to recognise the same model even when it appears at a new address. Every confirmed fake job venue Nigeria has documented follows the same three-stage model.
The fraud begins with a WhatsApp or SMS message claiming that you have been shortlisted from your CV submission or a job portal application. The message includes a company name, a reference number, and an address to report for an interview or orientation session on a specific date and time. The company name is either invented or closely mimics a legitimate business. The reference number appears official. The address is a real building where the fraudsters have rented office space or gained access to a legitimate-looking environment. For job seekers who have submitted CVs to multiple platforms, receiving a shortlisting message for a company they applied to — or think they may have applied to — feels plausible. This plausibility is the first deception layer. Fake government job recruitment scams in Nigeria follow an identical first-stage model — the same WhatsApp shortlisting approach that sends victims to fake government offices also sends them to fake private company venues on this list.
When the candidate arrives at the address, they encounter an environment designed to confirm the legitimacy of the company. There are other candidates present — some of them planted by the operation to maintain the appearance of a genuine group interview. There is a reception area with a branded sign or banner. Staff wear lanyards and carry clipboards. Documents with the company logo are visible. The candidate is asked to fill in a registration form, which collects name, phone number, next of kin details, bank account number, and in some cases BVN. This documentation stage has two purposes: it confirms the candidate’s engagement with the process, and it harvests personal data that enables secondary fraud even if the candidate subsequently refuses to pay any fees. Task-based job scams in Nigeria use the same personal data harvesting approach during their onboarding stage — the physical office version is simply a more credible delivery mechanism for the same data extraction objective.
After the interview or orientation session, the candidate is informed that they have been selected and must pay a fee to confirm their position. The fee is framed as a registration charge, a training deposit, a uniform fee, a background check processing cost, or an identity verification charge. Amounts vary between ₦5,000 and ₦50,000 depending on the stated seniority of the position. Some operations issue receipts printed on company letterhead to add finality to the transaction. Candidates who pay receive no employment. Phone numbers go unanswered the following day. The office may still be physically present for several more weeks — processing new waves of victims — before relocating to avoid identification. Importantly, the operation’s investment in office space, furniture, and branded materials is recovered within the first day of operation. A single batch of 20 candidates each paying ₦15,000 generates ₦300,000 — more than enough to cover a month’s desk rental in any of the locations listed above.
Examining the 41 confirmed fake job venues Nigeria has documented reveals a striking geographic pattern. The majority cluster in specific areas of Lagos: Ogba, Ikeja, Agidingbi, Surulere, and Anthony Village. This clustering is not random — it reflects the specific conditions that make those areas attractive for fraud operations. First, these areas have high volumes of legitimate commercial activity — real offices, real businesses, and real job interviews genuinely happen in Ikeja and Surulere every day. A fake office in Ikeja is less suspicious than a fake office in an exclusively residential area. Second, these areas have high foot traffic of job seekers. Proximity to bus stops like Cadbury, Mega Chicken, First Gate, and Allen Avenue means that candidates travelling by public transport can be directed to addresses that are convenient enough to be plausible and busy enough that the arrival of groups of candidates does not attract attention. Third, the prevalence of shared office buildings and short-term desk rentals in Ogba and Ikeja means that fraudulent operators can establish a professional-looking presence for as little as a few weeks without a long-term commercial lease. This geographic insight has a practical protective application: if a job interview address is in Ogba, Agidingbi, or the Allen Avenue axis, cross-reference the full street address against this list before travelling. The concentration of fraud in these specific neighbourhoods means that any unknown company directing you to these areas warrants heightened scrutiny. Fake federal government job offers similarly direct victims to physical addresses — understanding both private and government job venue fraud gives you a complete picture of how physical address scams target Nigerian job seekers.
Every fraudulent address on this list could have been identified before the victim travelled using the following verification steps. Apply all four before attending any interview at an address you cannot independently confirm.
Search the exact company name combined with the address in Google — for example, WESTCORP SERVICES LTD Anthony bus stop Lagos. If the company has no presence in Google Maps, no website, no news references, and no professional directory listings, it does not exist as a legitimate business. Genuine companies operating from Lagos offices appear in Google Maps, on the Corporate Affairs Commission register at search.cac.gov.ng, and typically in at least one professional directory. A company that appears only in a WhatsApp message and on no independently verifiable platform is not a genuine employer.
Search the full street address in quotes on Google — for example, search for the full text of the address you have been given. Fraudulent addresses are reported repeatedly across Nairaland threads, Twitter scam alerts, and consumer protection forums. If the address appears in results alongside words like scam, fraud, fake company, or job scam, the verification is complete. Fake house rental agents in Lagos use the same fake office strategy — renting real spaces to create professional-looking fraud environments — demonstrating that physical address fraud is a consistent pattern across multiple sectors of Nigerian consumer fraud.
Visit search.cac.gov.ng and search for the company by its exact name. A legitimate Nigerian business has a CAC registration number, an active status, and a registered address that matches the address you have been given. If the company name does not appear, or appears under a different address, the discrepancy requires explanation before any interview attendance. The CAC register is free, publicly accessible, and takes under two minutes to search.
Do not call only the number provided in the job offer message. Search for the company name on Google independently and call any number associated with a legitimate business listing for that company. If the number in the job offer connects to a different company or to an unrelated personal phone, the discrepancy confirms the operation is fraudulent. Smishing and vishing scams in Nigeria use the same principle of fraudulent phone numbers — the pattern of providing contact details that cannot be independently verified is consistent across every category of Nigerian fraud. The EFCC’s official fraud report portal and the FTC’s authoritative guidance on job scams both confirm that payment at any stage of a job interview process is the universal defining indicator of employment fraud.
Fake job venues Nigeria fraudsters operate are a documented, persistent, and expanding threat to Nigerian job seekers across Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt. Four conclusions from this analysis protect every Nigerian job seeker from every variant currently operating. First, the 41 addresses listed in this post are confirmed fraudulent venues — if you have been directed to any of these addresses, do not attend and do not make any payment. Report the contact details to the EFCC at efcc.gov.ng. Second, the geographic clustering of fake job venues in Ogba, Ikeja, Agidingbi, and Surulere means that any unknown company directing you to those specific areas warrants heightened scrutiny and full CAC verification before travel. Third, no legitimate Nigerian employer charges any fee at any stage of an interview, orientation, or onboarding process — any payment request at a job venue is fraud without exception. Fourth, the four verification steps in this post — Google search, fraud database check, CAC register check, and independent phone verification — take under fifteen minutes and stop every fake job venue fraud before any travel or payment occurs. Share this post with every job seeker in your network. The addresses above are active right now — awareness before travel is the only protection that consistently works.
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