These employment sites are now filled with lots of illegitimate sites trying to con prospective job seekers. After receiving tons of jobs from many company who pose as being in business for many years but in fact only created the website less than a week ago.

The letter I got today is the funniest one. This time they are posing as CareerBuilder who just updated their server and that I now need to install something to keep using their database. These letter never fool me because I know my way around the net like the back of my hand. Here is the email I got with the name removed.

Dear customer {Removed},

Greetings!

Thank you for using our services. we are happy to announce

that our server was succesfully updated!

Because of great ammount of major changes in our site, you need to install our

certificated CareerBuilder software (click here) to able to continue using our database

If you will not install it till 1th january you account will be unavaiable

Thank You for Your Contribution.

You do not need to answer this letter. It was send automatically by our newsletter bot

Support Team

You can see in the letter that there are many spelling mistakes, I don’t think a real email from CareerBuilder would contain any mistakes like this. The date this site was created was Dec. 15 2006. To the average internet users out there they would have clicked the link and wind up with all sorts of virus or trojan.

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