Fake job offer from Aegis Capital Group LLC - phishing scam!

[Description]

This days have started with another phishing scam. It is about a fake job offer that appear to be from Aegis Capital Group.
In the fake mail, a position of an "Account manager" is offered (possibly other positions too).

The e-mail is similar to this one:

Subject: the reply for your request for a job place


Dear sirs,

Aegis Capital Group LLC ("Aegis") is a specialty investment firm managing private
equity and venture capital funds with a national focus on small businesses and the
social benefits of supporting entrepreneurs and enhancing local job creation. We
would like to stress, that our company pays special attention to customer support of
private customers, though we also have the corresponding business plans for the
bigger companies as well. A more detailed information about our company you may
obtain at our official website.
Due to the necessity for expansion of our company, we have announced some additional
openings for new employees. We are glad to offer you one of the vacant positions in
our company's team - a position of the "Account manager".
You will have the responsibility for the following duties: fulfillment of orders
given by the company, operations with the bank transfers(direct deposits and wires)
from customers, implementation of calculations regarding customer payments,
acceleration of the space needed for the delivery of payments to the regional
branches by provision of money transactions (customers' payments) via worldwide
Western Union instant transfer system, proces sion of correspondence by means of
mail forwarding and scanning.
The position offered is regarded to be a part-time job, so you will only need to
have about 1 free hour a day to be able to work with us. You will earn a net 10%
commission for every transaction you dealt with. All the traveling expenses and
transfer fee charges are covered by the customer.
You do not need any previous experience in finance sphere, because we will provide
you with the most detailed instructions, support and advice at each stage of the
responsibilities' implementation.
You may hope for the career growth within our company. Under certain circumstances
you will have a chance of providing your services to major companies and VIP
customers. In such a case, both your salary and your status in our company will
sustain an increase.
You may find more detailed info at our website by following hyperlink:

http://joboffer-705236799.acapsite.hk/?vacancy

Sincerely Yours,
HR Manager

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By following the link given in the offer we are presented "job vacancy" page

If we select to fill theonline form then we are presented with a "contract page"
where we must complete some fields were among other personal data there is one called
SSN (Social Security Number). More information on SSN can be found here

Also, besides the SSN, there are fields that request bank account no, type of account, account name, etc...

It is just one case among many others were the name of a known company is used in an identity theft scam.


Our advice is to ignore this type of e-mail and delete it from your INBOX.