An applicant received an email from a Gmail address (pnp.nominee@gmail.com) claiming they'd been selected for a 'Canadian Resettlement Provincial Nominee Program' and suspected it was a scam.
What the group confirmed:- Real provincial nomination communication (a Letter of Interest / LOI) arrives in your official GC Key account, not by direct email. At most, you'll get a generic email notification telling you a new message is waiting in your account — never the actual offer details sent directly to your inbox.
- A Gmail (or other free personal-email) sender address is a major red flag. Government programs communicate from official government domains, never a generic Gmail account.
- The group's unanimous read: this is a scam. No legitimate PNP would reach out this way.
Takeaway: never act on immigration-related emails from personal/free email addresses — always verify by logging into your official GC Key or IRCC account directly rather than clicking links or replying to the email.