http://www.star-group-usa.cn/e/index.php?page=r_3

Wow! I was fooled enough to research it!

http://www.idea-group-usa.eu/e/index.php?page=r_1

The job is for a "financial agent" to process funds via my personal bank account and be paid 2300 per month (to be later raised to 3000/mo) & commissions for only working 2-3 hours per day. You know what they say - if it seems to good to be true - well, you know the rest.

I could not validate the existence of the company, any of the principal officers - nothing. The business location in New York City does not exist in any mapping programs. The phone numbers listed for the NYC location have a 610 area code which is for outside the Philadelphia PA area.
It all smelled too fishy - and I am assuming such - thus keeping far away from them.

Watch out for AIR Group Inc. They give impressive links to their website in the email job offer - and the website looks very official - but that is the only place I have ever found them to exist - only in their own created website. Which looks to have been created only on 8-7-08, but claims existence since 1990.

First, don't visit any web sites in these e-mails unless your browser, operating system, and virus protection are all up to date with the latest patches, and even then you may want to sandbox the browser, because the site is probably going to try to secretly install viruses on your machine. Remember, these people are criminals.

Second, a quick and easy way to check out a site is to go to Godaddy.com and use their "Whois" lookup (if you're on a Mac, just open a unix terminal window and type "whois" followed by a space, then the domain name). You'll get the domain record, including information on when the domain was created. Labean manufacture dot com was created in June of 2008.

It's very coincidental that this domain got registered just a few weeks before these spams started going out. Too coincidental if you ask me.

Most of the job scam e-mails I get are received through e-mail addresses I never registered with any job board. The scammers say they found you through Monster or CareerBuilder because it makes them sound more legitimate, but Monster and CareerBuilder never had anything to do with it.

Just because I say I found you through Monster or CareerBuilder doesn't mean I actually did.

Imagine you send out 2 million spam e-mails. If just 5% of the people who receive them are registered with Monster, then you've hit 100,000 scam candidates. They send these out in those kinds of numbers.

She went to the advertiser's site, and it seemed fishy: most of the buttons didn't work, and the job application required her to download a program that, according to the site, would perform an 'automated interview'.

(Needless to say, the job was rather too good to be true.)

Turned out the 'automated interview' program was a malware dropper that would have installed a Trojan on her machine.

I checked with Reed's site (www.reed.co.uk), and was amazed to discover that advertising a fake job is horribly simple: anyone can do it for £50, and they guarantee at least ten responses. The job offer is automatically mailed to any registered job-hunter who roughly matches the criteria. Coming from an established employment agency, many job-seekers will no doubt be drawn in, and no doubt many will be suckered into downloading the malware. I assume that the program provides a dummy application form while it does its dirty work.

So - look out, people: a job opportunity from a reputable employment company could hide a nasty surprise. Checks are apparently nonexistent.