Job Email Scam?

Received this strange email this morning and wondered if it was a scam:
Greetings,

First of all let me introduce myself. My name is Miss Lisa Taylor and I'm working with a dynamic and forward thinking international art company here in the UK.

Job title: Financial Services Officer, department: Payment and Finance division.
Job Description:
- Work schedule: Mon - Fri, from 9 AM - 2 PM.

This offer is contingent upon your passing our mandatory background check, which will be scheduled on date you create a Task Manager account, to determine your ability to perform the essential requirements of the Financial Services Officer position.

The position is subjected to the following terms and conditions:
• Base Salary: Will be paid in monthly installments of 1,500 GBP, subject to deductions for taxes and withholdings as required by law and the company policies.
• 8 % Commission.
• Benefits:
- Formal training via our personal supervisor training program
- Management growth opportunities
- Health care and retirement plan
- Solid technology support
- Paid vacation
- Paid Sick leave

• Non-Compete Agreement: non-compete agreement must be signed prior to start.
• Terminating the employment: employment is at-will basis. Both parties can terminate the relationship with a notice of 14 days at any time.

If you are in agreement with the above outline, please let me know. This offer is in effect for 5 business days.
Contact us at [email protected]. I'm sorry, due to spam problem we have to use a gmail address, company e-mail address will be revealed to you after reply.

Sincerely yours,

HR Department,
Miss Lisa Taylor

Hello
It is a scam.
"My name is Miss Lisa Taylor" is typical scammer's approach.

A sentence is mot pour mot replicated here:

"This offer is contingent upon your passing our mandatory background check, which will be scheduled on date you create a Task Manager account, to determine your ability to perform the essential requirements of the Financial Services Officer position."

http://jobsearch.about.com/u/sty/jobsea ... il-com.htm

"Financial Services Officer" is a euphemism for a money mule. The Bimbom-Bump money mule gang, which usually pretends to be outsourcing companies, has put up several websites pretending to be art dealers. Please post the website's URL here. If my hunch is correct, there's a sliding image with the word "Yayoi" on it.

The procedure the scammer has detailed to you sounds complex fletch5392 but it bears no relation to what happens in real life. No one nowadays will give you a job without a face to face interview (and I don't mean online) and certainly not any job involving the transfer of funds.

The scammer can't even give the UK background checking procedure its proper name and a real company would be liable to a large fine if they operated this way.

I don't want to detail the procedure here as scammers will use what I post to improve their next scam attempt but you can easily check up if anyone pretending to be a UK employer says they're performing a background check on you - ask for the application reference number and log on here

https://secure.crbonline.gov.uk/enquiry/enquirySearch.do

Until you get the certificate the check has not been performed.

https://www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check/tracking-application-getting-certificate

Once the check is completed, the DBS will send a certificate listing the results to the applicant. The employer will have to ask the applicant to see the certificate.

Scammers who mention background checks to UK victims can easily be exposed as scammers, and I enjoy bursting their bubble.