The Web sites can be copies of legitimate businesses. The only give-away might be in the careers section of the site where there will be a job called "Financial Transfer Manager" or something along those lines.

In this instance, the domain name for the Web site that the fake seek email links to has been set up only last month, which is another give-away, according to Horsley.

There are a number of ways that the public can be on guard for these types of scams, said Horsley. Having suspicion of any job offer that sounds too good to be true is a good start. Watch out for anything that requires you to have an Australian bank account and the opportunity that you can earn a lot of money for very little work.

"Also, if it looks like a legitimate site you can copy one of the phrases and put it through Google, where you will often get the original legitimate site to come up," he said.

"The phishers have also sometimes written their own stuff -- so the grammar might be very poor which is a dead give-away. But we saw one case where they did a full copy of the Danish art gallery -- including all the pictures -- it was a huge site and it looked just like the legitimate site. The only thing they added was this careers section where they had their money transfer job description," he said.