I was contacted through an ESL website by a man saying he was a Swedish engineer working for Chevron Oil in Lagos, Nigeria. He said that he wanted to hire me as an ESL teacher for his family. He said that he would pay for my work visa and my plane ticket, and he would provide my housing, etc.

He told me to contact a man named Celestine Olise at Travel Concepts, Inc. to process my paperwork. Mr. Olise asked for my documents and then told me that in order to process my work permit, I would need to send $500 USD to him by Western Union.

This is making my very nervous, and I want to know if it is a scam or not. When I looked up Mr. Olise in a search engine, his name came up about an airline scam.

I am not sure what to do about this, and hope that you can help me. The job sounds great, but no one (the man who hired me or Mr. Olise) will contact me by phone.

What do I do?