They trick their unsuspecting clients in many ways, even plan fake trips for them. Illegal visa bureaus are mushrooming everywhere, it’s hard to know the false and genuine ones. The dealers conspire with bank employees to process statements and they have connections all over the world.

These people use every trick possible to unscrupulously earn money from the difficult visa requirements set by most embassies. Some unlawful dealers get you genuine documentation through dishonest means, but the majority are just conning people. Illegal travel bureaus are springing up in every part of the country under the guise of Tours and Travel agents. Some are briefcase bureaus; others operate on the streets, in cars, in very tiny rooms and others in big executive offices to lure the unsuspecting public.

Invitation letter
The bureaus can help one process a visa to any destination in the world. The visa dealers conspire with bank staff to avail them with bank statements of big account holders, with the holder’s knowledge. Alternatively, they modify your account to show that you have big transactions over a certain period time. The travel agents also conspire with employees of big companies or government institutions to show that they are to meet their client’s travel expenses. This means that you don’t need a bank statement to get a visa. The dealers also have agents in the Europe, these agents can send them an invitation letter for either a vacation or wedding or any social issue. When you get to Europe, they host you and help you to get papers to start working, on condition that they get a percentage of your salary every month since you are using their work permit.

Sometimes, people manage to get visas but unfortunately fail to raise money for the tickets. This gives the dealers another chance to buy off  their passports at around $2000 and sell them to other people who have  money for tickets and are ready to travel.

Churches
The visas business is not only limited to travel bureaus but also among groups of drama, sports, churches and corporate companies, to mention but a few. It is so embarrassing that even in the churches where someone only expects holy happenings are also involved such evil practices like forgery, conning and general visa frauds. Several cases have come up involving church ministers conning their flocks in the guise of taking them abroad for conferences, studies, ministering, and working among others. They ask the followers to contribute a small fee for the trip promising a top up from the church and in the end, it never happens, and innocent Christians lose their small hardly earned money to greedy church ministers. 

Look-alike passports
In some cases, they also help you to travel on the passport of someone who has just entered Europe with valid visas. They use look-alike passports to bring in their customers.They buy real, lost, and stolen passports on market and look for a prospective immigrant who looks like its previous owner. However,  7 out of 10 immigrants traveling on look-alike passports are likely to be arrested because of insufficient likeness to the pictures in their passports they are holding.