This was a review of a job scam from "PMI Incorporated" but it's a good primer in how you can spot a scam almost every time.

You can read more athttp://career-hunter.blogspot.com/2008/10/job-scam-detection-101.html

Just caught this job scam slipping through my spam filters. I'll post the e-mail, then I'll point out the signs that it's a scam.

From: Ferdinand Jamison [hburrows@reaching4solutions.com]

Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for paying attention to this letter. We would like to inform you that our company staff management had a chance to get acquainted with your resume at one of the job seeking websites and found it rather impressive and persuasive, so this is the reason why you have received this letter. Your candidacy would be perfectly suitable for the position of the financial department employee in our company.

Here is a quick review of our company. Our sphere of business activity includes working with different types of precious metals purchases or investments. We work with Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium and many other types of today's popular precious metals on the world market. PMI incorporated was set up as a local enterprise in Poland. Since 2004 we provide our services to our customers worldwide. The company clients(physical persons and organizations) come from more than 20 countries all over the world including the USA, Australia and many countries from eastern and western Europe. PMI Inc is an ISO-certified precious metals dealer. We have been in this business for almost five years, have reached serious success and recently expanded to work on United States market. This is the main reason for recruiting many new US employees. We are looking forward to work with intelligent, energetic and responsible people. PMI incorporated can be already considered as a very successful organization, but we have a lot of room to move further, ...

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