Immigration consultants.
I can not say for sure if they are all crooked. I have never needed the services of one, but all the stories I have heard about them are not good. Immigration consultants are dealing in the world where many of their clients are poor and they are in a business that is feast or famine. When things get bad and they need money, they juice their clients to pay the bills. I talked to a car sales woman that told me she had an immigration consultant not only provided the service of facilitating entry into the country She also provided the service of facilitating their integration into Canadian society. The Immigration consultant would bring her clients to the car dealer to get cars for her clients, she was collecting a fee for this service as well as a kick back from the car dealer for facilitating the sale of the car plus all the added extras. The same was true when she brought her clients to buy a house or condo. There would be a kickback from the realtor.
Immigration consultants are indeed notorious scumbags, almost to a man.

