Just caught this job scam slipping through my spam filters. I'll post the text and then show you why it's a scam:

From: Alyce Christensen <a650504@abraminterstate.com>

Globus Capital Group
Finance Manager
Job Information
Post Date: Sep 30, 2008 Type: Full time
Salary: $5.000/month + 5% of each payment processing operation
Location: US, All States, 00000
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Are you the person you wanted to be when you grew up?

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So, last night was the beginning of Rosh Hashonah, the Jewish New Year. I didn't go to a synagogue and celebrate, but I did take time to have a personal chat with God. I first thanked him. Although the past year wasn't everything I might have hoped for, my family and I were healthy and kept our financial heads above water, plus we began what is so far a healthy pregnancy (wood dutifully knocked). Though we didn't have as much success as I hoped, we had our needs met and then some, which is a lot more than a lot of people can say in this world. Rather than complain about not doing as well as I wished, I tried to be grateful for doing well enough to have so few reasons to complain.

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So, I've been out of work for a bit, using a combination of some investments and unemployment checks to keep my head above water while I looked not just for a job, but the right one... a job that not only paid somewhere near what I believe I'm worth, but that provided challenges I would find interesting and opportunities for growth. All the while, I've had the impending birth of my second child looming on the calendar, motivating me to find something.

So, finally, it looked like I found something. The money was a bit less than I wanted, but the job looked really interesting and the company seemed to be a good place to work. I did a half-hour phone interview on Tuesday the 16th, then went in for 3+ hours of in-person interviews on Friday the 19th, and on Monday the 22nd the headhunter who had been arranging all this called and told me I had the job... almost.

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