Canadian work aplication

I app**** for work in canada.They contacted me from a +1 number and had a 16 min conversation from one department to do the application stages to a another finally setting up my skype profile and so the people i will get the work from will skype me for a interview all seem ligit even when they spoke to me now for them to do the visa and work permit and all that i have to pay R16000.00 in for the process to start should i trust this they gave me reference numbers my profile number that i should take to canadian embassy local can this be ligit.