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Bogus jobs and sex links listed on job site

Rob Hastings
Wednesday 12 December 2012 00:55 GMT
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The Government's new job search website – already hit by claims it leaves users vulnerable to hackers – has seen thousands of fake roles and links to pornographic websites posted online.

Around 6,000 positions have been removed from the Universal Jobmatch since it opened on 19 November, including supposed jobs with the intelligence services and even the Mafia.

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