It is worth complaining to job boards

If you see an obviously dodgy job advert on a job board it is worth pointing it out to them.

A lot of these boards do not actually look at / could not possibly look at every one of their their ads - they are simply providing a service, making the facility available and often re-broadcasting jobs from other boards.

However they will probably be nice people and/or be sensitive to the adverse publicity/reputational damage that comes from hosting dodgy job adverts.

They should all have, or you should be able to find on the interweb a "Contact Us" email address or web form.

Yesterday I found Media Management Group International advertising their "Sales Assistant" money mule jobs on Gigajob.com and filled in a feedback webform pointing out the problem.

Today I received emails from both Gigajob (an acculumator from other job boards) and jobs77 (who must have been the source board)

thank you very much for informing us in right time with details. The respective ad has been deleted and the user has been removed from our database. Please keep us informed in future, if you notice anything same, so that we can take quick action and save other users from getting cheated.

So well done them!

It is worth putting fake ad text here too. I look at the BIMBOM site links for their adverts and fly traps. Watch out for Multilevel Marketing ads i.e.Legal, To simple me that's wordspeak for Pyramid schemes i.e.Illegal. Ponzi and Pyramid are bound to be alive and well however.

If you see an obviously dodgy job advert on a job board it is worth pointing it out to them.

A lot of these boards do not actually look at / could not possibly look at every one of their their ads - they are simply providing a service, making the facility available and often re-broadcasting jobs from other boards.

However they will probably be nice people and/or be sensitive to the adverse publicity/reputational damage that comes from hosting dodgy job adverts.

Yes I think it is a good idea to advise them of any suspect employment advertisments. Because of the sheer volume, the job board would not be able to screen them all but they I'm sure they would appreciate notificaion. They are providing a service but if the job board was seen as being unrelaible or not trying, no-one would use it. There would then be no point having a job board. Yes as tedious as it sounds, I think worth doing.